Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

Democrats said Sunday they’re now willing to accept President Trump’s controversial border wall in exchange for protecting young immigrants from deportation — but Republicans said no deal.

The immigration fight has triggered a government shutdown now in its second day, after Senate Democrats refused to vote for a spending bill without a deal for the immigrants known as Dreamers.

President Trump and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer made a deal at a White House meeting Friday where Schumer agreed to funding for the border wall — but two hours later, the White House reneged, Democrats say. Besides the wall, Republicans are demanding that any deal include an end to chain migration and a visa lottery program.

“Chuck Schumer made what I considered to be a bold and important concession and said, yes, we'll go forward with the wall as long as we do this in a responsible fashion,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the number two Senate Democrat, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

But even Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a leader of the faction of Democrats most supportive of more liberal immigration policy, said Sunday he’s willing to cave on the wall if it means sparing hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients.

“If that’s their ransom call, I say pay it,” Gutierrez said on “This Week.”

He said that in addition to replacing DACA, the White House is willing to consider expanding it to cover more immigrants in exchange for those changes.

Ryan said negotiations were proceeding well until the shutdown happened, when Senate Democrats voted against a continuing resolution to keep the government funded.

“If we were saying, for instance, we’re never going to do a DACA solution, we’re going to kick these kids out, then I might understand Democrats getting frustrated,” he said.

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Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

But White House officials and Congressional Republicans said a wall alone is not enough. Any deal must also end so-called chain migration, which allows legal immigrants to bring family members into the country, and the diversity visa lottery program, which allows citizens of countries underrepresented among U.S. immigrants to apply for green cards by lottery.

im fucking dead yo. lmao.

we might as well just give 1/2 of our testicles as well at this point. (male dreamers of course.)

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

Didn't someone just tweeted that sources inside the White House are saying Trump is willing to drop the rest as long as he gets his big beautiful promised wall?

So many sources, who to believe, lol!

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

Found the article..

http://abc7.com/news/trump-willing-t...urces/2974136/

So which is it?

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

Well, we won't know until this is over.

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

"Negotiations were proceeding well till the shut down happened" in other words: stalling was going well till the shutdown happened.

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

Trump was willing to do clean DA

He doesnt know what he is talking about

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

So add the wall to the graham - dicky deal and that covers basically everything Jesus Christ this country is so incompetent I’m about to go back to russsia

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

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Graham enters the meeting predicting a breakthrough tonight, if there will be one. Trump is in the right place, he says, rapping Stephen Miller by name. “Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members.”

Re: Dems offer to accept border wall in exchange for DACA deal — but GOP won’t budge.
 

It also says that for immigration hardliners ending the visa lottery and chain migration is more important than the wall. What a shitshow lol