1. Secure the border in a transparently verifiable way;
2. End the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment
3. Enforce e-verify without exception and with severe penalties;
4. End chain migration. Entry per individual qualifications; not family ties.
5. Deportation upon contact with any law enforcement agency- federal, state or local;
6. No government benefits beyond critical emergency care(and that ought to be billed back to the home government);
7. NO "Path to citizenship" EVER for anyone who has entered the us illegally.
Well, if Trump reneges on his immigration/illegals stance, he might end up being the reason we have a civil war. If he isn’t going to go all-out and fight for us, no one else will.
.. Trump remembers 1986 and won’t repeat it IMO. NWO he isn’t...
Of course amnesty is not an exact path to citizenship - the next president will take care of doing that...
Sorry, Mr. President. You are wrong about this. Dead wrong.
If Trump thinks Ryan and McConnell are going to take the lead on this and then get hung out to dry when the base whines that the deal isn’t good enough, he’s kidding himself.
Let him put his reputation on the line for this one instead of cheerleading from the sidelines for action in the vaguest, most meaningless terms, as he did during the health-care slog.
Put a bill together, send it to McConnell, and he’ll try to get it done. If Democrats won’t bite then it’s Trump’s failure, not the Senate GOP’s. McConnell’s done being a whipping boy.
What Trump should have done, knowing that Schumer and Pelosi are implacably opposed to funding the wall, is named his terms from the beginning: “Sure, we’ll do DREAM — in exchange for the RAISE Act, straight up.”
Americans like DREAM but they also like components of RAISE, like reducing chain migration and implementing E-Verify.
Trump could have made that the starting point for negotiations, which would have put some pressure on Schumer and Pelosi to make meaningful concessions. Even if he had “only” gotten E-Verify or a new policy prioritizing skills-based qualifications for immigrants over family connections, that would have been a meaningful achievement arguably worth trading a limited amnesty for.
Instead he showed his cards — “I want DREAM too!” — and then immediately backed off his top demand, which is funding for the wall.
People may parse words and have different definitions,
But amnesty in the dictionary is to forgive law-breaking. They are using a definition that it means no citizenship. What about children of Dreamers born in the US? Anyway, this is frustrating.
There can be no doubt that President Trump has attempted to keep ALL of his campaign promises despite 91% NEGATIVE press coverage and nearly ZERO support from the establishment Republicans.
I am grateful that he rescinded nearly all of the Obama EO's and got us out of Paris accord and stopped the Bush and Clinton dynasties. That alone has earned my support. I am confident that whatever comes will be the best that can be expected from the current political situation.
We need to win him some support in 2018 to keep going.
I’m trying to understand how this is different than Jeb!, Kasich, Pelosi or Gutierrez.
Trump should just say — hey we are going to make an exception for DACA and grant amnesty for this group of people. Better than trying to redefine what words mean. I can live with it if he gets his other agenda items done. The Presidency is not a dictatorship and Trump has to work deals to get things done.
But what is Trump getting for DACA? Just curious.
If we want to be real the Dreamers were staying no matter what. But it is a pretty shitty deal to explicitly cave on it for nothing but a vague promise? of a border wall and absolutely no credit or political capital at all. Trump is still every bit the racist and xenophobe to practically everybody after this as he was before.
Put as much lipstick on this pig as you want, but this is losing, big time.
1. Secure the border in a transparently verifiable way;
2. End the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment
3. Enforce e-verify without exception and with severe penalties;
4. End chain migration. Entry per individual qualifications; not family ties.
5. Deportation upon contact with any law enforcement agency- federal, state or local;
6. No government benefits beyond critical emergency care(and that ought to be billed back to the home government);
7. NO “Path to citizenship” EVER for anyone who has entered the us illegally.
Thank you! Without all of the above we are headed to a hot civil war. And I suggest:
8. Rescind the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act.
So many Fair Weather Freepers. Wouldn’t have thought that.
Anything less that them leaving is amnesty. 30-60 million illegal aliens need to go home. Send the American-educated kids home to fix their countries. Most were older and past that school-age anyway. Their families are illegal, too, and need to go with them. No Amnesty!!!!
How is this not amnesty? Of course it is.
You came here illegally.
We’re letting you stay.
That’s amnesty.
But then, Trump has always been for amnesty.
Of course it is amnesty. The main reason is supported Trump was to get rid of the “Dreamers” and other illegals, not giving special rewards to those who break our laws.
Don’t let Schumer and Pelosi throw you. They thought, if they came out with an outrageous statement, they’d put Trump in a corner.
But you can’t corner a Deplorable. Or fool one, either.
Steady on!
PING