House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday spurned President Trump’s $20 billion request for a border wall, suggesting Democrats in the lower chamber would oppose that figure even if it ensured a deal to protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“All of the money he wants for his wall? Oh, come on, come on, come on,” Pelosi said at a press briefing in the Capitol.
Democrats are willing to support a host of tougher security measures in a comprehensive immigration reform bill, like the 2013 proposal, that addresses the fate of the 11 million people in the country illegally. But they’re not open to all of those same enforcement provisions as part of a DACA fix, which deals with just a sliver of that population.
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