In brief comments to reporters Thursday morning, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that he would wait until he heard all that happened t the dinner meeting between Trump and Pelosi and Schumer. “We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides”.
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“There is a lot of bipartisan support right now, so I think there’s definitely reason to be hopeful”, says Laura Barrera, a legal fellow with Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps.
ABSURDLY MISGUIDED The Trump administration is still no closer to winning congressional approval for its budget bill covering the cost of building a long-promised wall along the Mexican border.
“That’s an important position because we can not make a 2,200 mile (3,540 km) wall a condition for passing the Dream Act and we’ve been very clear from the start”, said Senator Dick Durbin, a senior Democrat who has been working for the past 16 years to legislate protections for the Dreamers.
Many of those with DACA status know no other home; this is where they were raised and educated and given a chance in life.
No matter what his motives, we’re thinking just to put his name over Obama’s, some good news is coming out of DC about DACA.
But Congress is struggling to find a way to pass a law to give the young immigrants quick protections, and prospects for quickly enacting a replacement seemed dim late Wednesday. The deportation of 800,000 young people will not be carried out in one go, but will instead start with those whose extendable two-year resident permits under DACA are set to expire. Trump ended the DACA program on September 5.
In a hearing Thursday, Garaufis warned that he could find the government’s actions to end the program for nearly a million immigrants “arbitrary and capricious”. “They’re the only people who will be harmed”.
Garaufis suggested Shumatte relay his concerns to the Trump administration and indicated that he was troubled by the mixed messages between the president’s tweets and the stance taken by government lawyers, including Sessions. “No promise is credible”, King tweeted.
Breitbart News, which is run by former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, slammed the president in a headline as “Amnesty Don”. ” dinner at the White House on Wednesday night, one thing is certain: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was sick of being talked over by a table full of men”.
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By Thursday morning, the president wrote a series of tweets to try to explain where immigration pieces stand.
