Trump is offering the Dreamers more than Obama ever did and more than Schumer and Pelosi have ever offered. Now that he’s captured their flag what do you suppose they’re going to do? If you guessed accuse him of being racist and making America white again, you win. These people have absolutely nothing to offer except opposition to Trump. The democrat party is being found out to be an intellectual empty suit with no ideas of how to help the average American get ahead in life and offer their children more than they had. Identity politics is slowly being deconstructed and exposed for the shallow, vacuous manipulative tool that it is. It is the weapon of those who have no ideas to offer and cannot challenge their opponents on an intellectual level. I don’t like Trump as a person, but as a President and deal maker he is hitting it out of the park and the alt left extremists in media, entertainment, academia and the democrat party are losing their little narrow minds. He is bundling expansive DACA expansion and pathway to citizenship with ending chain migration, the boarder wall and a few other goodies. Just sit back and watch the disingenuous vapid intellectual contortions the aforementioned leftist extremists come up with. Enjoy the show!
Trump’s Immigration Offer
He dives back into deal-making with a constructive proposal.
The Editorial BoardJan. 25, 2018 7:24 p.m. ET
U.S. President Donald Trump meeting with US Mayors is on the economy, his immigration policy and sanctuary cities in the White House, Jan. 24. Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Shutterstock
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The Editorial Board
Maybe an immigration compromise isn’t hopeless in 2018 after all. That’s at least a possibility after the White House floated a proposal on Capitol Hill late Thursday that would offer legalization and a path to citizenship for some 800,000 so-called Dreamers in return for funding for President Trump’s wall at the Mexico-U.S. border and other changes to U.S. immigration law.
The details weren’t fully known by our deadline Thursday, but the outline has something for both sides. Democrats would get legal protection for the Dreamers, the young adults brought here illegally as children. They could also become U.S. citizens over time, which makes sense given that this is the only country they have known for nearly all of their lives. Democrats claim to care for the well-being of these people, and this is a big concession by the President given opposition from some on the right.
Those restrictionists would get funding for the wall, which Mr. Trump campaigned on. The White House proposal also includes limits on the ability of citizens to bring adult siblings or parents into the U.S., as well as an end to the lottery program that awards 50,000 visas a year to countries that typically don’t have many immigrants.
These concessions would substantially limit the number of legal immigrants, and thus a source of talent, but we recognize that compromise is needed to break the veto that both sides have held over immigration policy for so many years. Credit Mr. Trump with recharging the chances for a deal after much recent acrimony.
Appeared in the January 26, 2018, print edition.
Trump’s Immigration Offer
He dives back into deal-making with a constructive proposal.
The Editorial BoardJan. 25, 2018 7:24 p.m. ET
U.S. President Donald Trump meeting with US Mayors is on the economy, his immigration policy and sanctuary cities in the White House, Jan. 24. Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Shutterstock
By
The Editorial Board
Maybe an immigration compromise isn’t hopeless in 2018 after all. That’s at least a possibility after the White House floated a proposal on Capitol Hill late Thursday that would offer legalization and a path to citizenship for some 800,000 so-called Dreamers in return for funding for President Trump’s wall at the Mexico-U.S. border and other changes to U.S. immigration law.
The details weren’t fully known by our deadline Thursday, but the outline has something for both sides. Democrats would get legal protection for the Dreamers, the young adults brought here illegally as children. They could also become U.S. citizens over time, which makes sense given that this is the only country they have known for nearly all of their lives. Democrats claim to care for the well-being of these people, and this is a big concession by the President given opposition from some on the right.
Those restrictionists would get funding for the wall, which Mr. Trump campaigned on. The White House proposal also includes limits on the ability of citizens to bring adult siblings or parents into the U.S., as well as an end to the lottery program that awards 50,000 visas a year to countries that typically don’t have many immigrants.
These concessions would substantially limit the number of legal immigrants, and thus a source of talent, but we recognize that compromise is needed to break the veto that both sides have held over immigration policy for so many years. Credit Mr. Trump with recharging the chances for a deal after much recent acrimony.
Appeared in the January 26, 2018, print edition.
