They pointed to the more conservative bill that failed Thursday and said if Mr. Trump, the administration and Mr. Ryan had put more effort behind it, they may have been able to pass it.
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But passage of the House bill remains in doubt even after President Donald Trump met with lawmakers this week to support an immigration fix. An Ivanka Trump-branded store was scheduled to open in the lobby of Trump Tower in NY on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, selling handbags, jewelry and candles.
Leaders in both the House and Senate are struggling to shield the party’s politicians from the public outcry over images of children taken from migrant parents and held in cages at the border. Democrats unanimously opposed the measure, saying it would toss too many people off government food assistance.
There were 41 Republicans who voted with Democrats to sink the Goodlatte bill. The first bill, authored by Reps.
The legislation stands nearly no chance of getting through the Senate, meaning Republican dreams of stricter work requirements will probably go unrealized for at least the foreseeable future.
What did this bill include?
The House on Thursday narrowly passed a $860 billion farm bill that strengthens work requirements for food stamp recipients.
“The simple answer is not enough Republicans are willing to do what we told the American people we were going to do when they elected us”, Jordan said.
Those defections – almost one in five GOP lawmakers – underscored the party’s chasm over immigration and the election-year pressures Republicans face to stay true to districts that range from staunchly conservative to pro-immigrant.
But they are running up against Mr Trump’s shifting views on specifics and his determination, according to advisers, not to look soft on immigration or his signature border wall. The compromise bill would also provide funding for detention centers. Instead, the president attacked the USA asylum system and accused Democrats of preventing action on immigration… The second bill, a more moderate proposal offering citizenship to Dreamers, is slated for a vote on Friday – a day later than initially scheduled to allow GOP leaders more time to rally support for the measure.
Later in the afternoon, GOP lawmakers filed into a basement conference room to get another update on the legislation and heard another presidential pep talk – indirectly, through House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who told colleagues that he had spoken to Trump. “I don’t know when the vote is”, Meadows said. Party leaders, including President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have lobbied lawmakers this week in hopes of securing their support for the legislation.
Speaker Ryan is trying to persuade the legislators, and one reporter Tweeted that he offered to hold a vote on mandatory use of E-Verify. Led by Curbelo and Rep Jeff Denham, a Republican from California, many are from states with large populations of young “Dreamer” immigrants who now face deportation threats under Trump’s decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme. Ryan also complained that Congress is dysfunctional without deadlines, and after the Supreme Court earlier this year essentially delayed the need for a vote on a DACA resolution until after the midterm elections, there was no urgency to act on Capitol Hill.
“We are pleased that the president is calling a halt to his inhumane and heartless policy of separating parents from their children”, said Peter Schey, the lawyer in a lawsuit that resulted in a key agreement governing the treatment of migrant children in detention called the Flores settlement. The program is temporarily still in effect, pending further federal court action.
“It is not a compromise”, said House Minority Leader Pelosi.
Overall immigration levels: The compromise bill would keep immigration bills level.
The order, which Trump signed Wednesday, directs the Department of Homeland Security to keep families intact when they are caught crossing the border.
Despite the president’s order, Schey said he was concerned that several thousand children have already been separated from their parents “without the Trump administration having any effective procedures in place to reunite children with their parents, many of whom have already been deported”.
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Mr Trump blames Democrats for what he calls “loopholes” in the law that require families detained for entering the country illegally either to be separated or released.
