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Mexican Invasion Title: "Shut down ICE!": Amnesty activists shout down Pelosi over DREAM deal with Trump As of mid-afternoon on Monday, its already a cinch you wont watch anything more enjoyable online this week than this. Remember this post from Friday night? Words cant capture how funny itll be if the open-borders left muscles Schumer and Pelosi into walking away from a DREAM deal with Trump standing by, ready and willing to sell out. Seeing Pelosi squirm face to face with the radical amnesty shills Democrats have created is but a simple pleasure. The deeper pleasure is knowing that if you dislike the idea of a DREAM compromise in which DACA enrollees get citizenship and border hawks get a few border security upgrades plus some magic beans, these shrieking idiots might be your best friends right now. Theres not much the right can do to stop Trump given how loyal Republicans are to him. There *are* things the left can do to stop Schumer and Pelosi. We demand a clean bill that protects immigrant youth without hurting our families, the protesters chanted. They accused Mrs. Pelosi and her fellow Democrats of giving into Mr. Trumps deportation machine and accused her of using Dreamers as a bargaining chip. Actually, its the GOP thats using DREAMers as a bargaining chip. Theyll trade amnesty for border security, which is Pelosis bargaining chip. Thats one of the great travesties of Americas modern immigration debate: Securing the border is a partisan concession for Democrats, to be made only in exchange for legalizing lawbreaking. Still, the DREAMers arent being wholly irrational here. Its *mostly* irrational not to lock down a statutory amnesty when you have a border hawk in the White House who could tear up DACA at any time and start deporting DREAMers en masse. If hes willing to give up that power, take him up on it! He might even get enough good press from doing a deal that hell take an interest in a broader comprehensive plan to legalize most of the result of Americas illegal population. When your partys out of the White House, in the minority in both houses of Congress, and staring at a near impossible map in the Senate next year, you take what you can get now. But theres also a chance that doing an amnesty for DREAMers and no one else will exhaust Republicans appetite for immigration deals for the next decade or more. If your paramount goal is legalizing all illegals, not just the most sympathetic ones, arguably the DREAMers here are right that Schumer and Pelosi should hold out and see if they can get Trump to bite on an all-or-nothing comprehensive deal. Clearly he wants to legalize DREAMers and avoid the bad press that would come from deporting them. Democrats are giving up their leverage over a national amnesty by agreeing to one for DREAMers alone. Or is that not the goal at all? I get the sense listening to these people that even if Schumer and Pelosi negotiated an amnesty for all 11 million illegals with Trump, theyd be out there screaming if the deal involved major enforcement upgrades like E-Verify, the RAISE Act, and the wall. Amnesty isnt really the paramount objective; continued amnesties, i.e. open borders, is. Nothing except a unilateral amnesty without security improvements might do. Thatll be a fun task on the next Democratic presidents to-do list. Scott McGrew (@ScottMcGrew) September 18, 2017 NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) September 18, 2017 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
To me, the wall is a separate issue and a done deal. Trump must build the wall or it's 4 and out. Linking the wall to Dreamer legislation is as senseless as linking the Paris Accords, NAFTA or tax reform to Dreamer legislation.
I keep thinking he must know that, no matter what Javanka are cooing in his ear.
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