Spokesman Raj Shah says in a statement that while “Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries”, Trump “will always fight for the American people”.
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Trump has called himself the “least racist person that you’ve ever met”.
But it was quickly apparent that the details did not pass muster with the President. One said lawmakers in the room were taken aback by Trump’s remarks. The standoff over DACA policy comes as the Trump administration this week reversed a policy allowing almost 200,000 people from El Salvador to live in the United States. Dick Durbin (D-IL) confirmed the allegations. They required anonymity because the agreement is not yet public. Alongside it was a document outlining a “vision” for Trump’s border wall: 700 miles, at a cost of $18 billion. That would put them ahead of people who have gone through the long legal process to enter this country.
But as Cuellar pointed out, border security doesn’t mean a wall stretching from Brownsville to San Diego.
Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who was briefed by Illinois Democratic Sen.
The decision came after Trump met with seven Republicans senators January 4 about immigration and several asked why there were multiple points of contacts and not one point person on the issue for the administration, a senior White House official said.
“However, we still think we can get there and we are very focused on trying to make sure that happens”, she said.
Separately, Durbin told reporters he had not seen a single news report about the President’s words that was false. “And how do six people find the other 94 in the Senate, I don’t get that”.
Third-ranking Senate Republican John Thune of South Dakota said it will take more time to build a consensus.
The Republican president’s comments were decried as racist by African and Haitian politicians, by the United Nations human rights office and by US lawmakers from both major parties. That’s how U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions described DACA when he announced on September 5 that the administration would rescind it and gave affected immigrants another month to reapply for their permits. When lawmakers reached a short-term, bipartisan deal last month to keep the government funded, United We Dream, the organization leading the campaign to legalize the dreamers, launched an all-out attack on Democrats for failing to insist that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals legislation be included in the spending bill.
Federal agencies will run out of money and have to shut down if lawmakers don’t pass legislation extending their financing by January 19.
The President had a meeting here today with a number of members, both from the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, as a follow-up discussion on immigration. The group’s recent attacks on Democrats reflect desperation as time runs out for DACA.
All of this left lawmakers confused Tuesday as to the future of DACA.
The White House meeting includes conservatives such as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, and Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican.
The comments reportedly alarmed and mystified the people attending the meeting.
Chain migration. The bill would prevent people from sponsoring visas for extended family members. “Wall was not properly funded, Chain & Lottery were made worse and U.S. would be forced to take large numbers of people from high crime.”, Trump tweeted.
The problem for Democrats is that the party is a collection of one-issue entities, which too often use internecine disputes for fund-raising and, collectively, thwart any attempt at a cohesive progressive strategy.
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“E-Verify is the most effective deterrent to illegal immigration because it shuts off the jobs magnet and saves jobs for hardworking Americans”, Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, said on the House floor Wednesday.
