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Trump backpedals on DACA (surprise)

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The New York Times is reporting that the Trump administration is backpedalling hardcore on the informal deal that was made with Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi to legislatively reinstate DACA.  We always knew that there would have to be compromises in any DACA legislation — after all, we hold minorities in the House and the Senate, and the House runs by majority rule without deference to seniority etc., allowing Speaker Ryan to largely control the course of bills.  So there were always going to be some unlikable things in this bill, be it throwing some money away in the form of Trump’s silly border wall or whatnot.

That said, seems like the Trump Administration is going to demand the universe, probably killing any chance of saving DACA until 2018 at the earliest.

Administration officials said Sunday that Mr. Trump would seek to slam shut what they described as loopholes that encouraged parents from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send their children illegally into the United States, where many of them melt into American communities and become undocumented immigrants.

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In addition to a crackdown on unaccompanied children at the border, the document to be released on Sunday will insist that any deal to give the Dreamers a permanent legal status must include the construction of a wall across the southern border, aggressive efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants by deporting people who have stayed beyond the limits of their visas, and legislation to reduce legal immigration by creating a system that approves immigrants based on their skills, not their family connections.

Taken together, the proposals amount to a wish list for immigration hard-liners inside the White House, including Stephen Miller, the president’s top policy adviser, who has long advocated extremely aggressive efforts to prevent illegal entry into the country and crack down on undocumented immigrants already here.

This has all of the makings of a poison pill, forcing Democrats to abandon any legislative reprieve to Dreamers.  Politics have been full of surprises for me for the past two years now but, absent one of Trump’s epic 180’s, I don’t see a way forward on this.  It may be that nothing can happen on this until the next wave election or possibly a fundamental change in redistricting brought on by this year’s SCOTUS case.  That’ll be small comfort for all of the Dreamers that I worked with in Phoenix, who have been hanging by a thread for a year now.


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