Hostility From Trump And House GOP Looms Over Senate Immigration Talks
Negotiations in the Senate on an immigration package that would protect the group of young immigrants known as Dreamers has kicked into high gear, with dozens of Democratic and Republican lawmakers meeting almost daily to attempt to craft a plan before their self-imposed deadline of Feb. 8. But as the senators boast to reporters about their bipartisan bonhomie and progress toward a deal, a fear hangs over the negotiations: that conservatives in the House of Representatives and a mercurial President advised by immigration hardliners will shoot down whatever they manage to produce.
Were caught in this vortex where Trump wont negotiate and Republicans wont support anything that Trump wont sign, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told TPM.
The early exposure Thursday night of the White Houses proposed immigration framework only complicates matters. The planwhich Democrats have already declared dead on arrivalwould offer a pathway to citizenship for nearly 2 million immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children in exchange for deep cuts to legal immigration and tens of billions of dollars for walls on the countrys southern and northern borders.
While most Democrats say they could conceivably stomach the wall moneyand have in the past voted for billions in border security fundingthey say the visa cuts and abolition of most family-based immigration is a non-starter.
I dont have the appetite to completely redo the methodology of how we bring people into this country, Murphy said. There is room for for an increased skills assessment, but not at the expense of family reunification.
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