This is a Trump Bollard Wall
Posted on 02/11/2019 6:24:33 PM PST by MountainWalker
"The agreement reached tonight would include:
-$1.375b for border barriers (55 new miles of bollard fencing) -Dems drop call for new cap on ICE beds for detentions in interior -Overall cap on detention beds drops from 49,057 to 40,520
Per congressional official."
The 40,000 bed limit IS law. The Dems wanted it reduced to 16,500.
Trump has six years left.
Its funded beds not a hard limit.
I've said all along the mistake was saying he could do an EO instead of doing it. It trivialized the emergency when it could wait.
President Trump was in an impossible situation. He never should've signed Paul Ryan's first bloated budget, with no wall.
Right now it looks to me like the Dems caved on lowering the number of detention beds.
Funding is same as last year for detention beds.
I’m sure there will be greater details in the final agreement available tomorrow.
Bloomberg reporting this:
“Regarding the detention beds, a third congressional aide said the deal would actually increase funding for those beds by about 5,000 over last year’s record levels and said there would be enough flexibility built in to meet Trump’s request for 52,000 beds.”
WSJ reporting this:
“The bill would provide funding for about 5,000 more beds than the last spending bill funded but specifies an average daily population that Democrats said would require ICE to reduce the number of beds over the next seven months, aides said. However, the agency could transfer money, as it has been doing, to use more beds.”
Right now it seems that both sides (DEM/REP) are pushing their version of the detention bed issue to the media.
Dems saying they lowered the cap, Reps saying flexibility to increase the bed count.
Trump, don’t sign!
Sooner or later Charlie Brown has to
give up trying to kick that football.
Run the end-around and score.
The Rinos offered this same deal
months ago without a cap on beds.
They really do think we’re stupid.
If Trump does agree to this, he won’t
win the emergency declaration angle, as it shows (by his admission), that the
situation is not as grave as he claims.
He needs to stand firm on the 5.7
billion.
We all know the sad truth .
Shelby caved because he wants to handcuff Trump and ICE.
The WSJ is the Open borders newsletter and will put out all Gope misinformation .
We got screwed .
Concur; the Democrats voted money for the wall and the President can move money from other areas to fill it out. Build and get reelected.
Repubs surrendered graciously as always.
I would go this route.
The rest of the money is got by legal and non-emergency use of existing funds
The treat of emergency EO And / Or closing the border remains in President Trump's back pocket.
Dims, GOPe and other malcontents discombobulated as Impeachment is put aside.
Take the long view
The wall will be built and the bulk of it done before November 2020.
No cap.
Period.
As many “beds” as it takes.
There is only one person in DC who is on the people’s side.
“For what possible reason would the Democrats want to reduce jail space for illegals?”
Simple
The fewer beds, the more invading illegal alien insurgents that will have to be let go to blend in with citizens.
This is how they build their voter base.
This is a Trump Bollard Wall
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