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But up until now, Democrats have been reluctant to use that leverage to insist on protections for Dreamers unless it was part of some broader agreement. Shutting down the government strictly over an immigration policy dispute might not place Democrats in the best light, given the popularity of “border enforcement” and the relative unpopularity of “amnesty” among many voters Democrats are targeting, particularly in the white working class. That’s an important reason that Senate Democrats did not go to the mats for Dreamers before the last two stopgap spending deals were cut, despite promises to make a revival of DACA a condition for supporting any sort of deal.


But now, inevitably, Trump would at least share the blame, and could get nearly all the blame, for an immigration-triggered shutdown, thanks to his nasty, racist rhetoric and his reckless demolition of a deal with Congress that appeared to be within sight. With Americans being so generally ambiguous about the tradeoffs between bringing undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and discouraging more from crossing the borders, it doesn’t take much to shift sentiments for and against each party’s position. Now it’s Trump and Republicans who may be behind the eight ball.

So Democrats may no longer have to choose between good general election politics and fidelity to Dreamers (and to “base” Democrats itching for confrontations with Trump) in deciding how to proceed in the final stage of spending negotiations. They may now be much more willing to risk a shutdown, and much less fearful that they, rather than the nasty man in the White House, will get blamed if that happens.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...-shutdown.html

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Hell yeah. If the shutdown happens now Republicans are going to take MASSIVE BLAME for it and they will get burned in the 2018 elections. Let them burn. Cornyn and Cotton are single handedly killing everything.

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Here's my proposal to reach a deal:

- Eliminate DV lottery
- Add another 8.4 b to wall funding

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Sen. John Cornyn both criticized and praised President Donald Trump while talking trade, the border wall, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the recently passed tax-overhaul bill during a State of the Congress Address here Friday.

The current state of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation, the Senate Majority Whip said, has him uneasy. Cornyn is also skeptical about parts of the proposed border wall, questioning parts of the $18 billion price Trump has tagged on the wall.

More optimistically, Cornyn lauded the recent passage of the tax-overhaul bill, which he said will bring 77,000 new jobs to Texas. And despite Trump saying this week that immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Africa descended from “s—-hole countries,” according to news reports, Cornyn was confident lawmakers will soon find a DACA solution.

Not only is a trade deal in the balance, but so are the lives of more than 800,000 DACA recipients. Cornyn is confident “we can, and we will, find a solution.”

“You’d have to have a pretty hard heart not to have sympathy for 124,000 DACA recipients in Texas alone,” he said. “They make a valuable contribution to our state.”

http://m.valleymorningstar.com/news/....html?mode=jqm

Let’s see what next week brings us on this roller coaster ride.

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You all know that Trump didn't write the art of the deal right? He doesn't know how to negotiate. He's just a con man his whole life.

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Where's the dap trump defense squad ?

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#DreamersForTrump

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Trump will accept this deal immediately

We were so close: pathway to citizenship, eads for parents. Shit was golden.

But Dems had to cockblock us with TPS.

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Trump never wanted anything is why he called those countries shitholes. He did it ok purpose so democrats would attack him and he could play the "democrats don't want anything !!" Card