Democrats split over priorities for end-of-year battle

Front and center in the debate is a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives legal cover to 690,000 undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children.

President Trump pulled the plug on the program in September, but gave Congress until March to legislate a permanent fix for the program's recipients.


Democrats have since championed the Dream Act, a bill that would grant work permits and residency with a path to citizenship to nearly two million so-called Dreamers — DACA recipients plus other young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

“We are determined that this Dream Act will be the law of the land before this year is out,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) Wednesday.

Democrats have tacked their collective political future to a solution for Dreamers, leaving little doubt that they're willing to risk an ugly, protracted shutdown battle in exchange for the Dream Act or similar legislation.

Democratic leadership is hoping to reduce the load by striking deals on some of the issues ahead of time.

Democrats are pressing GOP leaders to consider the DACA issue before December’s budget debate, but it's unlikely Republicans will bring stand-alone DACA legislation to the floor, both because of divisions within their conference and because it would open the door for Democrats to try to tack on other priorities to the spending bill.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/35...of-year-battle

Seems we are number 1 on the list !

All hell will break loose if we get shut out before the end of the year.

That’s fine. The more people that know about our situation... the better.

idk how anyone can listen to Erica Andiola, she has 0 political knowledge and know how. Utterly incompetent, just like Bernies campaign.

You sure you're in the right thread?

I am interesting in hearing more about how Bernies campaign was ran?

It was ran... into the ground. RIP.

Yep wrong thread.

when will they vote in december for the budget ?

Dec 8th.. is what immigration staffer with Durbin told me to keep an eye out on.