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No deal: Pelosi rejects Trump’s offer to legalize 'Dreamers' for wall money
Washington Examiner ^ | January 19, 2019 04:35 PM | Updated Jan 19, 2019, 06:14 PM | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 01/19/2019 3:47:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Print this article House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she will not take up President Trump’s offer to trade off $5.7 billion in wall funding for a three-year extension of a program providing legal status for "Dreamers," who illegally went to the U.S. as children.

Pelosi, D-Calif., issued a statement just before Trump’s announcement, calling the plan “a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.”

Pelosi said the proposal does not achieve what Democrats have long sought for the "Dreamers," which is a pathway to citizenship or permanent legal status.

“It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter.“

Pelosi rejected the wall and repeated Democratic offers to increase other border security at ports of entry and to boost technology along the border. Some overlapped with the president’s offer, such as money for additional immigration judges and bolstering security at the nation’s ports of entry, where most illegal drugs enter.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

San Fran NO DEAL Nan...


21 posted on 01/19/2019 4:14:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Shove it, Pelosi. Americans who live on or near the border want ‘certainty’ that they are safe in their lives, too.


22 posted on 01/19/2019 4:16:11 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who is advising Trump? He is Commander in Chief. There is a security threat along the southern border. Simply order the Army Corp of Engineers to build the wall he wants. Rearrange funds in the Pentagon to finance it. Or save money by withdrawing troops from the myriad of foreign entanglements.


23 posted on 01/19/2019 4:16:18 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Time to start deporting Piglosi’s Wet Dreamers.


24 posted on 01/19/2019 4:17:44 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This was stupid. President Trump gave Nancy an opportunity to save face at the expense of pissing off his base and she still turned him down.

He played her like a fiddle.

25 posted on 01/19/2019 4:18:07 PM PST by Drew68 (Eating hamberders, drinking covfefe. MAGA!)
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To: Drew68

So why was it stupid?


26 posted on 01/19/2019 4:20:19 PM PST by hflynn
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Everything is going fine.

Trump’s last two important speeches have been short, calm, firm and straightforward. Good optics.

Like a good attorney, he knew the answer to today’s question before he asked it. He was already on to the next step, just had to lay this marker down first.

Let’s see what’s next.


27 posted on 01/19/2019 4:22:22 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Any of these objections (bullet points) look familiar?
28 posted on 01/19/2019 4:22:35 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Ask not for whom the boxcars come...)
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To: hflynn
So why was it stupid?

It was stupid for Nancy Pelosi to turn down the President's offer. She'll come to regret this. To the average Joe, it looks like President Trump is the only one compromising and offering concessions.

29 posted on 01/19/2019 4:22:44 PM PST by Drew68 (Eating hamberders, drinking covfefe. MAGA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Knowing they were voting for Miss “you gotta pass it before you read it” Pelosi...then we know why out Constitution was so abused under Obama...and the thinking world understands how totally vapid the Progressives/Socialists are in America...vapid and dangerous to our liberty and freedoms.


30 posted on 01/19/2019 4:24:01 PM PST by yoe (This "war" between USA parties is about the Constitution. Capitolism and Marxism.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
He was already on to the next step

So is it two offers and a declaration of emergency or three offers THEN a declaration of emergency?

31 posted on 01/19/2019 4:24:31 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s a game of chicken.


32 posted on 01/19/2019 4:28:03 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: hflynn

Yeah, that’s a winning strategy.


33 posted on 01/19/2019 4:28:20 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Drew68
So don't say this was stupid. Say this was stupid because Nancy Pelosi ....... so that I know WTF you are trying (unsuccessfully beyond belief) to say. Love you.
34 posted on 01/19/2019 4:29:25 PM PST by hflynn
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes Yes yes, start deporting Dreamer and watch the fireworks. he only needs to round up a few and the criminal dreamers need to go anyway. Win Win situation.


35 posted on 01/19/2019 4:29:41 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Salman
<>"I do not understand why anyone thinks the "shutdown" puts pressure on the congressional Democrats."<>

Because government workers are also government UNION workers - brethren and loyal to the 'Ratz.

I was in the teachers union, they are in "solidarity with their union brothers" (a phrase I first heard in "'license to teach" school).

Teachers often say, "Any teacher that does not vote Democrat is a d@mn fool!"

That's why.

36 posted on 01/19/2019 4:29:51 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Ask not for whom the boxcars come...)
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To: Salman
"Pelosi is trying to maximize the burden on everybody so you’ll not never do this again. She wants you getting hurt! She wants you suffering! She wants you thinking you’re responsible for this. You elected Trump! This is what happens when you send somebody to Washington they don’t prove of. You deserve to be suffering, damn it, for this act of insolence of yours. It’s bad enough when you elect a traditional Republican like George W. Bush, but this? You’re going to pay."

Pelosi Just Wants to Delegitimize Trump

37 posted on 01/19/2019 4:32:34 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: MileHi

Damn right it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


38 posted on 01/19/2019 4:33:21 PM PST by hflynn
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If they give into a wall, this wall will be the prize that will stick in their throats for deacdes, TRUMPS WALL


39 posted on 01/19/2019 4:36:01 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So Pelosi interrupted her trip to where ever to issue a statement. Or was it prewritten?


40 posted on 01/19/2019 4:37:08 PM PST by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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