Trump ignited eleventh-hour confusion Friday when he said on Fox News that he was looking at two immigration bills expected to be voted on by the House next week, but that he “certainly wouldn’t sign the more moderate one”.
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The White House scrambled on Friday to clarify President Trump’s position on a Republican immigration bill, with a spokesman saying the president supports the GOP leadership proposal despite Trump’s own remarks saying he would not sign it.
“I’m not in the room for negotiations, but I can tell you that working with them is. interesting”, Aguilar said.
Republican leaders circulated text of a “discussion draft” that called for $25 billion for a border wall paired with a new immigrant visa that would give DACA recipients a path to permanent residency and eventually citizenship. “I have to have that”.
Many Republicans worry that it could take Congress weeks or more to craft a bill that can pass both the House and the Senate.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will meet with Republicans on Capitol Hill Tuesday as House GOP leaders continue to tamp down a rebellion among their ranks on immigration and ahead of votes on bills created to appease centrists in their party.
“He would sign either the Goodlatte or the leadership bills”, Shah said.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham, a New Mexico Democrat, said the biblical defense “shows a dysfunctional, chaotic White House administration and Republican conference.no policy defenses to their current action separating families and taking children away from their mothers and fathers at the border”. In this morning’s interview, he was commenting on the discharge petition in the House, and not the new package. “He would 100 percent sign either Goodlatte or the other bill”. It does not call for family separation. “I think both the bills are being finalized right now, but we strongly support what they’re doing”. “We are enforcing the laws passed by Congress”, she said, calling on Congress to reform immigration laws.
The White House issues a correction saying President Trump supports both immigration proposals being considered by the House.
GOP senators including Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Susan Collins of ME also said they’ve been discussing family separation legislation.
If local law enforcement officials did not comply with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request to hold an immigrant who is in the country illegally, and that immigrant was released and later commited rape, murder or sexual assault of a minor, the victim or the victim’s family would be allowed to sue the jurisdiction, according to a draft of the bill released Thursday.
Democrats lambasted the Trump administration’s policies and said that keeping families together in federal custody was not a humane alternative.
Ahead of his meeting on Tuesday evening, Trump went back and forth about whether he would support one of the bills set to come to the floor this week, even though his own White House helped negotiate that very measure.
“Ryan’s answer is to stick a change of the law into the two big immigration bills he has the House voting on this week”.
“We want to solve this problem”, he said.
The proposed changes in the House GOP bill would override the 1997 settlement and related litigation to make clear that there is “no presumption that an alien child should not be detained” and that those children must not “be released by the Secretary of Homeland Security other than to a parent or legal guardian”.
The controversial policy enacted by the White House had been meant to be a deterrent by persuading those who were considering trying to cross the border – even if they were seeking asylum in the U.S.by fleeing violence in their home country – not to do so. However, there is no law mandating the separation of families.
DACA is an Obama administration program that allows children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the USA for a period of time so long as they meet certain requirements such as attending school, working or serving in the military. That version and Goodlatte’s bill are scheduled for House votes on Thursday.
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The bill also would address a growing concern on the border: the separation of parents from their children. It was focused on freeing and otherwise helping children who come to the border without a parent or guardian.
