Dems say 20 'poison pills' stand in way of spending deal

House Democratic leaders said Tuesday that more than a dozen “poison pill” provisions are preventing a bipartisan deal on 2018 spending, pushing Congress ever-closer to a government shutdown on Saturday and leading some top lawmakers to float the idea that another stop-gap bill may be needed to keep Washington running.

On her subcommittee, Roybal-Allard said the sides “are still at an impasse” over Republican requests for tougher border security and interior enforcement of immigration laws.

It’s still border security — [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents,” she said. “We really have been very flexible, in a lot of the areas, and they just won’t budge.”

Rep. Nita Lowey (N.Y.), senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, declined to specify the outstanding issues, but she confirmed that the 20 figure is accurate.


Several Democratic lawmakers said they’re still pushing to salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as part of the omnibus package. President Trump has sought to eliminate the program, though a federal judge has temporarily blocked that effort. The lack of certainty surrounding the program’s future has led many Democrats to insist that "Dreamer" protections be included in the spending bill.

You’ve got a court decision that protects the existing DACA kids. So protecting the existing DACA kids is no deal. We already have that, so it would have to go beyond that to be significant,” Lofgren said. “We’ve got kids who have aged in, who were too young to apply, and they can’t apply under the court order.”

Roybal-Allard also emphasized that Democrats would accept tougher immigration enforcement only if the Republicans shifted tactics and offered broad protections to Dreamers and other immigrants in the country illegally.

We would have to get something really substantial,” she said.

“At least there are still talks going on,” she added. “A couple of days when there was nothing. Now at least there’s discussions at different levels.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/37...-spending-deal

Not a penny towards border security if we don’t get any protections in place.

Dream Act or you can go play with your legos and eat cheese burgers trump.

Dream Act with no age cap.

Protect long-time undocumented immigrants who are under Orders of Supervision and have clean records.

DO NOT ALLOW INCREASED DETENTION.

Good, wall money for DACA extension equal no deal.

We want to protect aged out Dreamers.

everything is a poison pill if it can't pass the house.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=205s&v=Z1Z4q99kOc4

"Democrats sell out dreamers again" TYT

The Young Turks have been calling out the corporate Democrats for being conniving and weak on immigration for years.

But, I guess the The Young Turks are right wingers, according to the logic of some idiots here.

@beehive and @versailles

Well, giving relief to other Dreamers who don't have Daca is not what is causing your Daca to term.

Surely, you both know that.

Trump originally said 1.8 million I think he also included age out