The House Democratic Speaker seems to be trying to throw Donald Trump a bone b y saying he COULD help get a comprehensive immigration reform bill….
If he was to do so?
He’d have to jettison his trusty anti-immigration Assistant Stephen Miller….
And go with his son-in-law Jared Kushner….
THAT would be leaving the anti-immigration people standing alone….
Could Trump actually dos this?
If he does ?
He’d surely be twisting his party like a pretzel….
Pelosi has already had him Dom that, eh?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that comprehensive immigration reform is “inevitable,” and left open the possibility that it may still be possible under President Trump.
“It’s complicated, but it isn’t hard to do if you have good intentions,” Pelosi said during the Democrats’ annual issues conference at a golf resort in northern Virginia. “And I’m not giving up on the president on this. … I still say to him, ‘We’ve got to have comprehensive immigration reform.'”
Pelosi noted that Democrats secured new funds for immigration judges and other border measures in the spending bill that ultimately reopened the government, which Trump signed in February. But she accused the president of failing to tap those funds for their intended purpose.
“He has not utilized what is in that, specifically, [for] the border,” she said.
Pelosi also warned that the only long-term solution to the border crisis is the adoption of comprehensive immigration reform package, like the bipartisan bill passed by the Senate in 2013.
“We keep saying to the Republicans, ‘Let’s do that,’ but it has to be in a bipartisan way,” she said. “We think that there’s opportunity to do that.”
House Democrats have not introduced such a bill this year, pushing instead for piece-meal immigration reforms that include new protections for so-called “Dreamers” and those under temporary protected status. And Republican leaders in the GOP-controlled Senate have shown little interest in moving on a comprehensive immigration reform bill, instead joining Trump in urging more funding for the border wall as a first order of business.
Trump, meanwhile, has only heightened his attacks on immigrants as the border crisis has worsened in recent weeks.
“Our country is full,” he tweeted over the weekend.
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U.S. House Democrats blame Trump for worsening border crisis
Susan Cornwell
LEESBURG, Va. (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Democrats are accusing Republican President Donald Trump of aggravating a crisis situation at the southern U.S. border, saying he has not used funds available to help deal with a surge of migrants and exacerbated the problem with his attempts to crack down.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that bipartisan immigration reform, which has eluded Congress and the White House for years, is still the solution. It is in fact “inevitable,” Pelosi said on the sidelines of a Democratic party meeting in Leesburg, Virginia.
In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, also called for bipartisan discussions on immigration. But he focused on toughening U.S. asylum law, a move that Democrats likely would oppose.
Democrats have not proposed a comprehensive immigration bill since taking the majority in the House this year. Republicans still hold the Senate.
Instead, Democrats last month proposed legislation offering a pathway to citizenship for more than 2 million undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children. Known as Dreamers, they face possible deportation.
The House Democratic bill would also help immigrants from countries hit by civil conflicts or natural disasters who have temporary protected status, known as TPS.
U.S. officers arrested or denied entry to over 103,000 people along the border with Mexico in March, a 35 percent increase over the prior month and more than twice as many as the same period last year, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week…
More at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-democrats/u-s-house-democrats-blame-trump-for-worsening-border-crisis-idUSKCN1RN31Z
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he was willing to work with Democrats on a bipartisan immigration deal, blaming both parties for failing to address the issue.
“I think it’s way past time for us to have an adult bipartisan discussion about our immigration laws and see what we can agree to,” the Kentucky Republican said. “I’m willing to enter into a negotiation to see what we can do to fix the problems.”…
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There was a bi-partisan immigration deal, co-sponsored by John McCain, Lindsey Graham and other Republicans in Congress, that was shot down by (non-Cong.) Stephen Miller and the anti-immigration lobby.
Similarly, after bi-partisan round table at the White House, it appeared that the President would go along with a deal, until various forces inside and outside Washington (Miller, Fox News, etc.) shot it down a day or two later.