Pelosi: Trump says that he would sign the DREAM Act if it passed

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY MAX GREENWOOD - 09/07/17 11:48 AM EDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump agreed to sign into law a measure shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation if it's passed by lawmakers.

"We made it very clear in the course of the conversation that the priority was to pass the DREAM Act, that we wanted to do it in — obviously it has to be bipartisan," Pelosi told reporters. "The president said he would — he supports that. He would sign it."

Pelosi said she spoke to Trump on the phone Thursday morning, and during the call asked him to tweet a reassurance to young undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally as children that they would not be deported in the next six months.

Soon after, the president tweeted that DACA recipients have "nothing to worry about."

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/349634-pelosi-trump-says-that-he-would-sign-the-dream-act-if-it-passed

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Senate GOP whip: No vote on standalone bill for 'Dreamers'

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 09/07/17 12:08 PM EDT

Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) on Thursday quickly threw cold water on efforts by Democrats to persuade President Trump to support a stand-alone bill to protect an estimated 800,000 people from deportation.

Shortly after Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) spoke with Trump Thursday morning about moving the Dream Act, which would lift the threat of deportation from people who came to the country illegally as children, Cornyn said the legislation would not come to the floor in its current form.

“The minority leader doesn’t set the Senate schedule and the Dream Act — we’re not going to vote on the Dream Act as a standalone,” Cornyn told reporters.

He said that it’s unreasonable to expect GOP leaders to move a bill that conservative critics such as Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) call “amnesty” after Democrats were unable to pass such a bill when they controlled the White House and Congress.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/349638-senate-gop-whip-no-vote-on-standalone-bill-for-dreamers

[titaniumsalute]

1. Democrats are smart to hang this noose right around Congressional Republicans

They even bailed out Trump so he can help say "See the Republican Senators and House members can't even get this done. Blame them!"

Wow the Dems have grown a spine this week.

[LiberalLovinLug]

2. "I mean, they actually expect us to vote on a Dream Act as a standalone?!!!"

"How outrageous!. Its only reasonable that we be allowed to stuff in some pork, some tax write-offs for our big donors, and maybe a sprinkling of voter suppression as well"

[Mrs. Overall]

3. And poor little Mitch is crying, "Nancy, Nancy, Nancy..."

(Brady Brunch reference for the youngsters among us)

[gohuskies]

4. Meanwhile the Keebler Elf maintins the Dreamers are law breakers...

Sessions is a horrible AG with deep seated white supremacist beliefs that he is determined to carry on. Get that guy out of the Justice Dept.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. So he's trashed everything Democratic, now he's going to reverse

and side with the Dems and roil the Republicans?

He just plays people to get ahead. I don't think there's any other game going on.

[heaven05]

6. I hope she knows better

which I think she does and is just putting this out there to put the idiot-potus on notice along with repthugliKKKan cronies and hardliners.

[Sunlei]

7. Obama has the Dream act ready to sign. Ds please- put this on Mr. Trumps desk today.

Let Trump pressure Republicans in Congress/Senate to pass it. That's trumps best feature..he can squeeze Republican party nuts until they scream for mercy & sign.