Trump pitches immigration plan, slams Dems ahead of first State of the Union – By Kyle Balluck (thehill.com) / Jan 29 2018
President Trump in two late-night tweets on Saturday pitched his immigration plan while slamming Democrats, saying they are only interested in obstruction.
Trump called his fix for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “wonderful” and said there were two reasons for proposing it.
“I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients & a twelve year pathway to citizenship, for two reasons: (1) Because the Republicans want to fix a long time terrible problem. (2) To show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it!” he said.
“Democrats are not interested in Border Safety & Security or in the funding and rebuilding of our Military. They are only interested in Obstruction!” he added in a subsequent tweet.
I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients & a twelve year pathway to citizenship, for two reasons: (1) Because the Republicans want to fix a long time terrible problem. (2) To show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
Democrats are not interested in Border Safety & Security or in the funding and rebuilding of our Military. They are only interested in Obstruction!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
The tweets come ahead of Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, which is expected to focus heavily on immigration.
Observers are also wondering if the president will strike a tone of bipartisanship in the highly anticipated address.
Trump laid out is immigration plan in a one-page immigration framework last week, which is taking heavy fire from both the right at the left. It calls for granting a pathway to citizenship for nearly 2 million young immigrants in exchange for tens of billions of dollars for his border wall and other policies that would dramatically restrict legal immigration.
The president wants the Senate to introduce legislation based on his blueprint by Feb. 5, just three days before government funding runs out.
The three-day government shutdown ended early last week after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised to take up an immigration bill that would protect DACA recipients, often called “Dreamers,” if Democrats agreed to end the shutdown.
PB/TK – ‘Amnesty’ Don…. er I mean POTUS Donnie appears to be giving up a lot with his DACA deal, but by his own words “Mexico will pay for the Wall” sure doesn’t seem like reality when the estimate for the “Wall” a year ago was around $8 billion and now sits at $25 billion. Why isn’t Congress raising the budget or ICE, Border Patrol, and Coast Guard to protect all entry points, because the US-Mex border ain’t the only thing open. Personally I don’t think Congress is interested in fixing anything because once something is fixed they lose that soapbox
