Congress weighs leaving Dreamers in limbo another year

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




If lawmakers can’t reach a broader deal, they could provide temporary protections for the young undocumented immigrants.

By SEUNG MIN KIM 02/05/2018 05:15 AM EST

Congress may just end up punting on its Dreamer dilemma.

As lawmakers grasp for a solution for the young undocumented immigrants, one option is a temporary extension — perhaps one year — of their legal protections paired with a little bit of cash for border security.

“That may be where we’re headed because, you know, Congress is pretty dysfunctional,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the few to publicly acknowledge the possibility of a temporary fix. “That’d be a real loss. But that’s probably where we’re headed, OK?”

Some senators are already deriding a yearlong patch as “misguided,” a “Plan Z” and a proposal that would keep immigrants “in fear.” But lawmakers have only until March 5 to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program under President Donald Trump’s deadline.

And in a Congress that has routinely struggled to keep the lights on, at least some lawmakers say a temporary fix for Dreamers might be all but inevitable. Lawmakers return to Washington this week with another government shutdown looming after Feb. 8 and a deal on Dreamers still far out of reach — a reality that could make a DACA stopgap increasingly appealing.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/dreamers-congress-immigration-387026

[DownriverDem]

1. What about

the March 2018 deadline where some Dreamers will start being deported? I am sickened by this.

[getagrip_already]

2. take what we can get....

Lets not sink the entire ship to make a point. I know this is a flashpoint issue, but we have to walk back at some point or risk the midterms.

If we can take the house and senate - and that can only happen if we have a unified front - we are in control and trump will have to cave, or at the least we can protect them a year at a time until trump is gone. Then we can offer to bring back any that were forced to leave.

But if we push another shutdown, we will lose, and trump will have another scalp.

After the last round, they ran the score back up. And we still didn't have a solution.

Sometimes in war, you have to strategically fall back. You can't die on every hill you want to hold.

[hexola]

3. How about Trump just sign an EO?!

HA!

[Bayard]

4. Give them a year reprieve

Nothing happens till after the mid-terms.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. If the repug-controlled congress and tRUMP can't come up with a ...

solution, then this will backfire on them in the 2018 elections, especially since they are controlling everything! Cowards. GOTV and remember what these POS are doing for us, Americans...w/ the tax cut act of 2018, some of us are getting a whole $1.50 a week! Also, some of us are going to lose our health care due to the tax cut act of 2018.

Also, with the 2018 tax cut, despite Corporations and high worth individuals getting tax cuts, jobs are being cut, wages are still overall stagnant, only 2% of Americans have seen any impact thus far (based on other DU etc. articles), and sure the stock market is going up...guess who owns most of the stock markets? You got it, the 1% of the 1%.

There already have been studies that analyzed the pros/cons of concentrated wealth at the top. The biggest drawback? The wealthy tends to claw onto their money more (they have the ability to do so), thus slowing down the velocity of money, eventually slowing down consumer spending (after all, if you have so much money, what is there left to buy, investment-wise or consumer-wise?). I know that some provisions of the 2018 tax cut act don't start until after 2018 (see how clever the repugs thought they were?), expectations are being baked into the cake by individuals and corporations.

I'll bet you 1 thing...before long, we'll hear mutterings etc. that the 2018 tax cut act wasn't enough, etc., etc., etc. and that the powers that be need to act again!