White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

President Trump in fact supports both of the House GOP immigration bills expected to receive votes next week and misspoke earlier Friday when he said that he would oppose a compromise measure between centrists and conservatives, a White House official told The Hill.

"Yes, we fully support both the Goodlatte bill and the Leadership bill. The President misunderstood the question this morning on Fox News," the source said in an email. "He was commenting on the discharge petition/dreamers bill — not the new package. He would 100 percent sign either Goodlatte or the other bill."

Centrists had tried to use a discharge petition to force leadership to move on four different immigration proposals, including one backed by Democrats that protects so-called "Dreamers," beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the rest of House leadership managed to block that attempt earlier this week, and will instead bring forth a pair of immigration bills, including a more hardline measure from Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).

The president said Friday morning during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” that he was looking at both pieces of legislation, but "certainly wouldn't sign the more moderate one."


His comments resulted in chaos on Capitol Hill, with House Republicans scrapping their plans to whip the legislation — released Thursday evening — crafted following meetings between leadership, centrists and top members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

"We want to get clarity on the president’s position on this bill,” chief Deputy Whip Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) told reporters. “Republicans are not going to take on immigration without the support and endorsement of President Trump.”

Both moderates leading the discharge petition efforts, which would circumvent leadership and force votes on four separate proposals, and conservatives noted the bill was still a work in progress.

Despite the compromise bill coming together following meetings between negotiations from all factions of the GOP, conservatives have expressed concern that it lacks provisions to address e-verify, the guest worker program and sanctuary cities.

The president took to Twitter Friday afternoon to express his support for House Republicans' efforts to come to an agreement on immigration that meets his four pillars: a pathway to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an end to "chain migration," the elimination of the visa lottery system and strengthening border security.


The measure also ends the separation of immigrant children and parents at the border, closes “catch and release” immigration loopholes and contains a trigger mechanism to halt the new visas if Congress denies funding for the wall.

—Scott Wong contributed.

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Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Trump is such an embarrassment.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Yea Tramp is such an embarrassment. She needs to be impeached.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

A disgrace.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Where are all the trump supporters?!

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

This is what everyone already knew. He had no idea what was in the compromise bill. After he found out, he was all for it. Also he got to control the media cycle yet again (notice how no one is talking about $50bn china tariffs).

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Biden 2020

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Bernie 2020. If Dems control both houses after 2020 and Bernie becomes president, immigration will be the first thing that is addressed because the Dems don’t agree with Bernie on anything else.

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I seriously doubt immigration would be the first thing. And I’m not even trying to be a bitch.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

It wouldnt at all. Trump started all "I care for these people,these people are terrific" and look what hes doing. Nothing for us at all

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

I believe strongly if the Dems win it will be the following priorities:

1.Investigations for the next two years

2.Using the power of the purse to keep Obamacare

3.Get Dem President in office

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Well - this is all very confusing.

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Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Hope everyone who was eligible renewed their DACA and people without it hang on and be cautious .... This is going to be a long fight.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Th day WH and Trump parted their ways.

WH should fire Trump.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Exactly, so we're looking at 2020 again. And who knows what will happen with the SCOTUS by then.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

And dont forget undo all the shit Trump did

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

they should have Biden Bernie 2020.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

are you guys delusional? democrats getting 60 senate seats by 2020? that will be a 11-15 seat pickup. mark my words this Nov Democrats will loose some senate seats, 10 democrats are up for reelection in red states.
even capturing house is a tough sell. generic ballot advantage of Dems is shrinking.

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Mueller 2020

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

If Trump signs it, I will vouch to keep him in power. He deserves to be in power if he does something for me! Fuck you if you disagree.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Indeed. It's unlikely Democrats will win back the Senate.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Why dont you fuck off from this forum you wanna be red hat wearing inbred. Lots of sites where you can join them in sucking trumps cock

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

damn... Obama gave me DACA but i would never stan this hard for ANYBODY just bcuz they gave me something. lol

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Jwxie, if you want him to support it, get on fox and fellate him. Expressing your desire to suck him off on here isn’t doing anything beside making you look rather idiotic.

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jwxie518 go for this. Who knows you might even get a position in the white house just for doing it.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

He’s gonna need a magnifying glass to find that micropenis.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

How about you get the fuck off this site Piano because you love sucking on politicans’ own lies? Whoever signs it is my hero. You can sit there and cry about getting a deal from Trump, but I bet you will accept his offer. So suck it up.

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Lol doge stop being such an annoying bitch in real life. Seriously

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Lol i am just being realistic here. So many people are so delusional.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Well my opinion looks dumb to you: as much as your comment is to me. Sometimes you need to get your head out of your applied math textbook and actually realize you won’t get shit from the Demcroats.

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I certainly will vote for the Republicans when I become a citizen. Let’s wait for the passage! I like the tax bill but I did not like the obamacare repeal. Fair enough? They called me a conservative and I am.

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Lmao what meltdown

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

careful, you're gonna get banned.

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

You will vouch to keep him in power? Lmao what kind of pull do you have?

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

And what kind of power do you have over getting rid of him?

Re: White House walks back Trump's rejection of immigration compromise
 

Lol they have been harrassing me for a long time it comes to Demcroats vs Republicans. Anyway. i ain’t gonna argue with that doge cult.

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I didn't mention I had power of any sort. I'm not the one who going around saying he has power to keep Trump in Power.

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Half of ppl here sound like they just want to mooch off others hard work lol... when I hear Bernie on a 2020 ticket makes me laugh. I actually can’t believe more immigrants are not conservatives, those are the real values as to why most of our parents have moved to the us. To be able to work hard and EARN something for yourself and not wait to be given for free.

I hope to god trump gets this through, nothing else will happen before 2020 and if you think that immigration will stay as top 3 “issue” in US politics for next 2 years.... GL. 2020 election will be focused on US economy, as long as the conditions that are now sustain by election time I don’t see how Trump doesn’t win 2020 re election.

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That would be great!

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Nah. It ain’t that I want something for free. I want my tax dollars that I work so hard for to go to something that benefits me. Giving it to Halliburton for bombs and tanks to invade tiny middle eastern countries doesn’t help me. Giving it to rich Wall Street types in the form of tax cuts doesn’t help me. Giving it to companies that pollute the environment doesn’t help me. I’d rather it go to free education for people so I don’t have to live around a bunch of mouth breathing Trump supporters. I’d rather it go towards paying for other people’s health care because I know that sooner or later I’m going to have to go to the doctor and don’t want to break bank because shit happens with my health.

And asking for a green card so that I can earn something for myself isn’t a handout. I demand to show that as a college graduate who pays taxes and doesn’t have trouble with the law, i have earned the right to be a permanent resident in this country.

But I agree. They need to get this shit done and they need to get it done now. Immigration is tricky and the economy is gonna tank one of these days. When that happens, fuhgettabout immigration happening.