Dreamers-for-wall trade going nowhere in House
A deal to reopen the government by trading border wall funding for immigration benefits for so-called Dreamers doesn’t stand a chance in the House, according to legislators on both sides of the aisle.
House Democrats say they don't trust President Trump to keep his end of any bargain, and are wary of negotiating a deal that could benefit those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program while throwing other undocumented immigrants under the bus.
"Many of us, Democrats and Republicans, want to find a solution to this, and the White House has never been supportive of that," said Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), a moderate who worked out a Dreamers-for-wall deal with Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) last summer.
That bill would have granted a path to citizenship to Dreamers both within and outside DACA in exchange for technological and manpower investments in border security, but no wall construction.
The Hurd-Aguilar bill, which lacked the support of GOP leadership, never made it to the floor.
Aguilar ruled out even preliminary cross-aisle negotiations while the partial government shutdown is in effect.
https://thehill.com/latino/425003-dreamers-for-border-wall-deal-going-nowhere-in-house
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