Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:02:34 PM
Trump open to path to citizenship for some ‘dreamers’ in immigration deal
"Dale -- fwiw:
Schumer undaunted by shutdown's shortcomings on DACA goals "
By David Nakamura January 24 at 7:03 PM
President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington last month.
(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Trump said Wednesday he is open to a path to citizenship for some younger undocumented immigrants in an immigration deal being negotiated by Congress, provided he gets billions of dollars for a border wall and other security upgrades.
White House aides said his plan, to be released Monday, would grant provisional legal status to the 690,000 immigrants covered by an Obama-era deferred action program Trump terminated last fall. That group would then be eligible to pursue full citizenship over a period of 10 to 12 years, Trump told reporters during an impromptu discussion at the White House.
"We’re going to morph into it," Trump said of citizenship. "It’s going to happen--over a period of 10 to 12 years. If somebody's done a great job and worked hard. It keeps the incentive to do a great job. ... I think it's a nice thing have incentive, after a period of years, being able to become a citizen."
Trump also intends to ask for $25 billion for a border wall and an additional $5 billion for other border security upgrades. The White House also will continue to push for cuts to legal immigration, including an end to a diversity visa lottery, officials said.
During the discussion with reporters, Trump joked to Chief of Staff John F. Kelly that he hoped to have a deal by the time he got back from a two-day trip to Davos, Switzerland, for an economic forum. Kelly, who initially was scheduled to travel with the White House delegation, will remain in Washington to keep negotiating with Congress on immigration.
Trump terminated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in September but gave lawmakers six months to find a legislative solution. The program granted two-year work permits to immigrants who have been in the country illegally since they were children, a group known as “dreamers.”
White House officials said their initial proposal would be limited to the 690,000 who were enrolled in DACA when Trump terminated. However, Democrats and some Republicans have pushed to extend legal protections to a far larger group of dreamers – up to 1.7 million or more. White House officials said that would be left to Congress to negotiate.
[ In debate on ‘dreamers,’ an unresolved question: How many should benefit?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-immigration-debate-on-dreamers-an-unresolved-question-how-many-are-there/2018/01/23/72713072-0053-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.7cfffe0af55b ]
Trump's proposals will be included in a new immigration “framework” Monday that White House officials said aims to break the stalled congressional negotiations over the fate of the dreamers. Lawmakers face a Feb. 8 deadline for a must-pass spending bill to keep open the government, but Democrats and some Republicans have said they will not support a long-term deal that does not address the future of DACA.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has drafted a bipartisan immigration plan along with Sen Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), welcomed Trump's statement Wednesday as a sign of "presidential leadership on immigration."
“President Trump’s support for a pathway to citizenship will help us get strong border security measures as we work to modernize a broken immigration system," Graham said in a statement. "With this strong statement by President Trump, I have never felt better about our chances of finding a solution on immigration."
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), an immigration hawk whom Trump has consulted during the negotiations, said on Twitter ..
Democrats said they had not been consulted about what the White House plans to release on Monday, according to senior aides.
The White House announcement on immigration came as 35 senators gathered late Wednesday to figure out how the chamber will proceed on its immigration debate. Meeting in the hearing room for the Senate Armed Services Committee, the group of Democrats and Republicans asked Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Durbin to serve as a clearinghouse and sort out the parameters and timetable for the debate. Both senators are the deputy leaders of their respective parties and sit on a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on immigration policy.
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who co-chaired a series of meetings before and during the three-day government shutdown over the weekend in an attempt to end the impasse, will continue hosting meetings on the subject in the coming days, according to Graham.
“We have created a process for input. The goal is to create an output that’s good for America,” Graham said in an earlier statement.
Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the new White House immigration plans will “represents a compromise that members of both parties can support. We encourage the Senate to bring it to the floor.”
White House aides said the framework is intended to give Congress clear guidance about what Trump would accept in an immigration. Late last year, the White House sent a long list of immigration principles that lacked specifics. Trump said during a meeting with a large group of lawmakers at the White House two weeks ago that he would sign whatever plan Congress sent him.
A bipartisan group in the Senate led by Durbin and Graham presented a proposal to Trump last week that attempted to address his concerns. It included $1.6 billion for a wall and offered a path to citizenship for dreamers. Trump has rejected that plan. The president also didn't reach a deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who reportedly offered far more money for the border wall.
The lack of a deal on immigration led to an impasse over a spending bill and resulted in a partial government shutdown Saturday before lawmakers voted Monday to extend funding three more weeks. If they fail to agree on a spending plan by Feb. 8, the government could shut down again.
“We've taken into account all of the conversations that we've had, both at the presidential and the staff level, and tried to incorporate that into what we think addresses all of the different things that we've heard from the various stakeholders throughout the last several months,” Sanders said.
“After decades of inaction by Congress, it's time we work together to solve this issue once and for all,” she added. “The American people deserve no less.”
Ed O'Keefe contributed to this report.
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Trump, said about a shutdown during Obama's term, 'shutdowns were the fault of the president.' I'd guess actually some may be, others
may not be. Trump has a tendency to make lazy, blanket statements about any number of circumstances the background of which he
knows little to nothing about. For this particular shutdown it sure looks like Trump deserves to shoulder a real share of the blame.
"Dale -- fwiw:
Schumer undaunted by shutdown's shortcomings on DACA goals "
By David Nakamura January 24 at 7:03 PM
President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington last month.
(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Trump said Wednesday he is open to a path to citizenship for some younger undocumented immigrants in an immigration deal being negotiated by Congress, provided he gets billions of dollars for a border wall and other security upgrades.
White House aides said his plan, to be released Monday, would grant provisional legal status to the 690,000 immigrants covered by an Obama-era deferred action program Trump terminated last fall. That group would then be eligible to pursue full citizenship over a period of 10 to 12 years, Trump told reporters during an impromptu discussion at the White House.
"We’re going to morph into it," Trump said of citizenship. "It’s going to happen--over a period of 10 to 12 years. If somebody's done a great job and worked hard. It keeps the incentive to do a great job. ... I think it's a nice thing have incentive, after a period of years, being able to become a citizen."
Trump also intends to ask for $25 billion for a border wall and an additional $5 billion for other border security upgrades. The White House also will continue to push for cuts to legal immigration, including an end to a diversity visa lottery, officials said.
During the discussion with reporters, Trump joked to Chief of Staff John F. Kelly that he hoped to have a deal by the time he got back from a two-day trip to Davos, Switzerland, for an economic forum. Kelly, who initially was scheduled to travel with the White House delegation, will remain in Washington to keep negotiating with Congress on immigration.
Trump terminated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in September but gave lawmakers six months to find a legislative solution. The program granted two-year work permits to immigrants who have been in the country illegally since they were children, a group known as “dreamers.”
White House officials said their initial proposal would be limited to the 690,000 who were enrolled in DACA when Trump terminated. However, Democrats and some Republicans have pushed to extend legal protections to a far larger group of dreamers – up to 1.7 million or more. White House officials said that would be left to Congress to negotiate.
[ In debate on ‘dreamers,’ an unresolved question: How many should benefit?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-immigration-debate-on-dreamers-an-unresolved-question-how-many-are-there/2018/01/23/72713072-0053-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.7cfffe0af55b ]
Trump's proposals will be included in a new immigration “framework” Monday that White House officials said aims to break the stalled congressional negotiations over the fate of the dreamers. Lawmakers face a Feb. 8 deadline for a must-pass spending bill to keep open the government, but Democrats and some Republicans have said they will not support a long-term deal that does not address the future of DACA.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has drafted a bipartisan immigration plan along with Sen Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), welcomed Trump's statement Wednesday as a sign of "presidential leadership on immigration."
“President Trump’s support for a pathway to citizenship will help us get strong border security measures as we work to modernize a broken immigration system," Graham said in a statement. "With this strong statement by President Trump, I have never felt better about our chances of finding a solution on immigration."
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), an immigration hawk whom Trump has consulted during the negotiations, said on Twitter ..
.. that a path to citizenship for dreamers "must be done responsibly, guaranteeing a secure & lawful border & ending chain migration, to mitigate the negative side effects of codifying DACA."Not breaking, @realDonaldTrump & I & most GOP have said for months. But it must be done responsibly, guaranteeing a secure & lawful border & ending chain migration, to mitigate the negative side effects of codifying DACA. https://t.co/YkVipcqMcY
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 24, 2018
Democrats said they had not been consulted about what the White House plans to release on Monday, according to senior aides.
The White House announcement on immigration came as 35 senators gathered late Wednesday to figure out how the chamber will proceed on its immigration debate. Meeting in the hearing room for the Senate Armed Services Committee, the group of Democrats and Republicans asked Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Durbin to serve as a clearinghouse and sort out the parameters and timetable for the debate. Both senators are the deputy leaders of their respective parties and sit on a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on immigration policy.
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who co-chaired a series of meetings before and during the three-day government shutdown over the weekend in an attempt to end the impasse, will continue hosting meetings on the subject in the coming days, according to Graham.
“We have created a process for input. The goal is to create an output that’s good for America,” Graham said in an earlier statement.
Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the new White House immigration plans will “represents a compromise that members of both parties can support. We encourage the Senate to bring it to the floor.”
White House aides said the framework is intended to give Congress clear guidance about what Trump would accept in an immigration. Late last year, the White House sent a long list of immigration principles that lacked specifics. Trump said during a meeting with a large group of lawmakers at the White House two weeks ago that he would sign whatever plan Congress sent him.
A bipartisan group in the Senate led by Durbin and Graham presented a proposal to Trump last week that attempted to address his concerns. It included $1.6 billion for a wall and offered a path to citizenship for dreamers. Trump has rejected that plan. The president also didn't reach a deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who reportedly offered far more money for the border wall.
The lack of a deal on immigration led to an impasse over a spending bill and resulted in a partial government shutdown Saturday before lawmakers voted Monday to extend funding three more weeks. If they fail to agree on a spending plan by Feb. 8, the government could shut down again.
“We've taken into account all of the conversations that we've had, both at the presidential and the staff level, and tried to incorporate that into what we think addresses all of the different things that we've heard from the various stakeholders throughout the last several months,” Sanders said.
“After decades of inaction by Congress, it's time we work together to solve this issue once and for all,” she added. “The American people deserve no less.”
Ed O'Keefe contributed to this report.
99 comments - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/01/24/white-house-promises-new-immigration-framework-amid-stalled-negotiations-on-dreamers/?utm_term=.c7637a5737bd
Trump, said about a shutdown during Obama's term, 'shutdowns were the fault of the president.' I'd guess actually some may be, others
may not be. Trump has a tendency to make lazy, blanket statements about any number of circumstances the background of which he
knows little to nothing about. For this particular shutdown it sure looks like Trump deserves to shoulder a real share of the blame.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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