A judge last week blocked a Trump administration government decision to end the Obama -era program.
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The Republican president tweeted Sunday morning to allege that “Democrats don’t really want it”, referring to the DACA protections.
President Donald Trump on Sunday declared a deal on the DACA immigration program likely “dead”, tweeting his view that Democrats don’t really want one.
The president rejected the bipartisan proposal that would have given DREAMers (those covered by DACA) a chance at legal status and a path to citizenship; the measure would have also eliminated the diversity visa lottery, prevented DREAMers from sponsoring their parents, and funded some other border projects.
Trump wants to increase spending on the military, while Democrats want corresponding increases in other domestic spending.
But officials also said they were not accepting requests from individuals who had never been granted deferred action under DACA. He elaborated on the way to dinner with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., saying Democrats “don’t want to help the DACA people”.
“The Trump administration stated that it plans to “vigorously” challenge the district court’s decision”.
But, after the hard right’s years-long campaign to demonize what they call amnesty, President Donald Trump’s dream of accomplishing what his predecessors could not is little more than fantasy, a punji pit where the lives of recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) get impaled.
An estimated 790,000 dreamers hold DACA status; about 124,000 live in Texas, according to the Pew Research Center. Trump, who has taken a hard stance against illegal immigration, announced past year that he will end the program unless Congress comes up with a solution by March.
Negotiations bogged down, however, amid reports that Trump told lawmakers he would rather have more immigrants from Norway and fewer from “shithole countries” including Haiti and some African nations.
Shortly after Trump’s tweets, he was contradicted by key Senate Republicans and even his own Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, who said on “Fox News Sunday” that there’s still hope for a solution if Democrats would agree to close immigration loopholes.
Left flank: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, especially its vocal chairwoman Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham and longtime immigration advocate firebrand Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez, have been instrumental in keeping Democratic leadership checked in with the base on the left.
Cotton went so far as to suggest that Durbin has been untruthful before. “I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed”.
Previously, Perdue and Republican Sen. The White House has not denied that Trump said the word “shithole”, though Trump did push back on some depictions of the meeting.
At a meeting at the White House late last week, Mr. Cotton said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he “didn’t hear” the vulgar word used.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Sen.
Asked by a reporter in Florida whether he was a racist, Trump said: “No”.
The three Democratic and three GOP senators who’d struck their proposed deal had been working for months on how to balance those protections with Trump’s demands for border security, an end to a visa lottery aimed at increasing immigrant diversity, and limits to immigrants’ ability to sponsor family members to join them in America.
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“One thing I do take big issue with the president on is he is saying that the Democrats aren’t moving forward in good faith”, Flake said.
