Trump aides plot a big immigration deal - that breaks a campaign promise
Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau
BY ANITA KUMAR
akumar@mcclatchydc.com
AUGUST 22, 2017
Donald Trumps top aides are pushing him to protect young people brought into the country illegally as children and then use the issue as a bargaining chip for a larger immigration deal despite the presidents campaign vow to deport so-called Dreamers.
The White House officials want Trump to strike an ambitious deal with Congress that offers Dreamers protection in exchange for legislation that pays for a border wall and more detention facilities, curbs legal immigration and implements E-verify, an online system that allows businesses to check immigration status, according to a half-dozen people familiar with situation, most involved with the negotiations.
The group includes former and current White House chiefs of staff, Reince Priebus and John Kelly, the presidents daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, who both serve as presidential advisers, they said. Others who have not been as vocal publicly about their stance but are thought to agree include Vice President Mike Pence, who as a congressman worked on a failed immigration deal that called for citizenship, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, a Democrat who serves as director of the National Economic Council.
They are holding this out as a bargaining chip for other things, said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman with the Federation for American Reform, a group that opposes protecting Dreamers and is in talks with the administration.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Curbs on LEGAL immigration plus that f@cking wall?
Nope
Amishman
(5,559 posts)The only thing stopping his wall and mass deportations is funding. And the government has proven time and time again, funding is fungible given enough time to craft excuses and reallocate. I think some of this is already happening quietly given the uptick in ICE raids and deportations. It goes both ways, remove Trump and that funding can be shifted away just as easily.
On the other hand, law is much firmer. A new law protecting children for deportation would mean a lot more in the long run. Trading a couple billion in funding for a wall (that won't work anyway) and a haircut on something like guest worker programs might be worth considering for the long term improvement of the legal landscape.
Yes, this would give Trump a victory in the short term, but that isn't going to mean shit once Mueller's findings are public.
If there is opportunity to trade a small short run loss for a long run gain, it's worth considering.
Trump and the Republicans are so fucking desperate for anything at this point and we might be able to exploit their shortsightedness.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)There was a little change in the couch cushions they can use for studies etc, but he can't take Medicaid money and spend it on his idiot wall.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)I'm pretty this stuff happens regularly
The wall itself is probably harder to fudge into funding, but it's a gimmick anyway
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I hope they try that.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)Say it's for 'preventing terrorists from entering the country' but the are really fishing for migrants.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Amishman
(5,559 posts)Salaries are only a piece of the DHS budget, easier to defer contracts or equipment purchases, or just take it out of discretionary funds.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)sick bastards
procon
(15,805 posts)There's still no mention of how Trump would come up with the actual funding needed to pay for any of these expensive projects. Strange how money is never an issue for this bunch of balance-the-budget, cut government spending and waste, financial responsibility liars.
IronLionZion
(45,600 posts)and request the IP addresses of anyone visiting liberal websites.
Allowing dreamers to stay while putting massive restrictions on legal immigration sounds like BS. Once their get their white supremacist immigration reforms they'll just throw the dreamers out anyway.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)And Democrats opposing it would be at risk
paleotn
(17,994 posts)His mouth breathing base will not go for anything short of deporting every single person who's here illegally. Those clowns will not compromise one bit on that issue....wall or no wall.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Jim Robinson swore he would never support Romney, called him name after name, but Free Republic rallied for him in the end.
Plus there are a lot of softer bigots who will give Trump credit for minimizing nonwhites.
I hope you're right and that I'm wrong. And I am often wrong.
paleotn
(17,994 posts)They want everyone deported. The RWNJs will not compromise on deportation, period, end of story. The rest of the country doesn't trust him as far as they can throw his orange arse. So now he'll have damn near everyone pissed at him. And no matter what they try to bargain with, there will be no wall since it's an incredibly stupid waste of money. Just more bush league BS from the neophytes.
Blue Idaho
(5,061 posts)Is so shattered I doubt they can get a majority to do anything more than give themselves a pay raise.