Bipartisan DACA Deal includes $1.6B for The Wall
 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...ign-off-336501

Senators reach preliminary Dreamers deal, but Trump hasn't signed off
The tentative agreement includes $1.6 billion for wall planning and construction.

By SEUNG MIN KIM and NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 01/11/2018 02:05 PM EST Updated 01/11/2018 04:01 PM EST

A bipartisan group of six senators has reached a deal that would shield “Dreamers” from deportation and make other changes to immigration laws and border security — but the framework has yet to win over the White House and other key players on Capitol Hill.

The package negotiated by the senators includes $2.7 billion for border security, which includes Trump's $1.6 billion request for wall planning and construction, as well as $1.1 billion for security infrastructure and technology, two sources directly familiar with the negotiations confirmed to POLITICO.

Lawmakers rushed to the White House for a hastily-called meeting Thursday to present details of the Senate group's plan to President Donald Trump. But White House legislative affairs director Marc Short said on Capitol Hill that the president has not yet signed off.

The Senate negotiators said they would keep working.

"President Trump called on Congress to solve the DACA challenge," the senators said in a joint statement. "We have been working for four months and have reached an agreement in principle that addresses border security, the diversity visa lottery, chain migration/family reunification, and the Dream Act — the areas outlined by the President. We are now working to build support for that deal in Congress."

The group includes Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).

Senate Republican leaders said they, too, are seeking details of the agreement.

"I think it's a good idea for them to share that with everybody else. My job is to count the votes, and I think until people are comfortable with the product, they're not gonna commit to voting for it, and that's what I think our goal should be, is to get it passed,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said. “So I welcome their contribution, but it's not gonna be something that's agreed to by just a handful of people."

Details of the agreement are scant. But senators have considered effectively nixing the visa lottery and reallocating those visas to a separate program being terminated by the Trump administration aiding immigrants from countries facing natural disasters or civil strife. Countries affected so far by Trump’s ending of Temporary Protected Status include El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan.

To address conservative concerns about “chain migration,” the senators are proposing that undocumented parents who brought a child to the United States illegally would not be able to access a pathway to citizenship based on being sponsored by their children, Flake said. But the parents of Dreamers would be able to obtain a three-year provisional legal status that could be renewed, according to the senator.

Graham has said the provisions legalizing Dreamers would fall somewhere between the Dream Act that he authored with Durbin and a more conservative bill for Dreamers written by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.).

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$1.6 not enough monies! meet em' half way like 7-8 bil from the 18 bil the GOP initially wanted.

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My theory is that Democrats knew this bill was getting rejected no matter how good it was the first time, so they only gave him 1.6b so they can meet in middle. They will probably re-introduce it Tomorrow.

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Bit lacking on the details, but hopefully it includes pathway to citizenship for us.

Not quite sure what the last paragraph means:

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If you believe that McCarthy and Graham were on board with that plan...

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Trump is stupid and no bill will be good enough to please the racist right

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so in other words, not the dream act

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Well thats obvious... Dream Act has no border security provisions.

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what im focused on is the provisions legalizing dreamers, what exactly does that mean?

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Probably won't include as many people as the Dream Act.

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I think if they up the border security money, this could pass.

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https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/st...54433967673345


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My colleagues and I have reached a bipartisan agreement on the #DreamAct


Durbin my man!!!

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The biggest obstacles are Cotton who has ties to Miller and is trying to derail shit. Dems need to stand strong now more than ever,

This is a good start, probably give more money for border security and the protection for parents probably are the biggest sticky points right now

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then why say the reached an agreement on the Dream Act? Why didnt they just call it something else? There are other dreamers besides the ones that fall into a perfect, narrow window of eligibility

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So, he is talking about a different bill than the one that was rejected earlier, right? I'm guessing they will send it to WH Tomorrow?

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Ok, going to hold off any excitement until it's like, you know confirmed?

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No, Flake said in an interview on MSNBC that they will be shopping the bill around this weekend. They'll probably present it to Trump on Monday.

Edit: so it'll be the same bill, but revised.

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This time I wont pop bottles until Trump tweets it
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Trump already rejected this. They have to do more.

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I'm confused AF. Apparently a deal had been reached, WH rejected, now a deal has been reached again?

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Yeah, idk wtf is going on.

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^This. I am really hoping it's part of the show. This way both parties can say they fought tooth&nail to get to an agreement. It works out even better for Trump since it'd reinforce his perceived talent for deal-making.

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Hahah..I am scratching my head same as you lol. wtf...are the media or the politicans the ones trolling us?

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12-year path to citizenship for Dreamers in deal, although it's effectively 10 years for people who have already been approved for DACA (12 for those who would ultimately qualify for program)

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12 years? sounds good.

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No offense but I don't really care about citizenship. I just want to live in peace and travel at my own will.

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I’m so confused

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What about children that were born in the US? Wonder if they can still sponsor their parents.

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I hope that means that people with DACA have 10 year path and younger and older dreamers are the ones on the 12 year path

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what are you confused about? senate group has finalized a deal, trump took a look and said try again. at the same time, they're going around and asking the rest of the senate how they feel about their deal.

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or what about children that were daca eligible but got citizenship through marriage before DACA was ever a thing? Do those parents still have a path?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...d94_story.html

Read that, it’s disturbing.

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10 years? Lawd

W/e

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Fine. Whatever. I don't care to be a citizen, just a green card will suffice.

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It's not over till the man with the orange hair tweets

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Not sure if your interpretation is accurate. Some of us are thinking it's a round #2-type agreement after the WH already took a look and rejected. Durbin's initial comments and the tweet just now, serves as justification.

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How is this going to appear on the mainstream media? How will it affect Trump's views after seeing what the media says?

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If people had any doubt that Trump was racist then that should clear things up.

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Why would anyone from Norway want to come here? WTF is wrong with this dude?

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I love how he picks the whitest country in the world.