Trump says Democrats blocking deal on DACA

Washington Times:
President Trump said Sunday he was ready to strike a deal on DACA but Democrats won’t do it, again raising the stakes in a budget standoff over immigration that threatens a government shutdown this week.

“We are ready willing and able to make a deal on DACA, but I don’t think the Democrats want to make a deal,” Mr. Trump said. “The folks from DACA should know the Democrats are the ones that aren’t going to make a deal.”

The president upped the pressure on Democrats in repose to questions from reporters as he entered Trump International Golf Club, accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who was his dinner guest.

“Honestly, I don’t think the Democrats want to make a deal. I think they talk about DACA but they don’t want to help the DACA people,” said Mr. Trump.

The president and congressional negotiators are looking for a permanent fix to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, that granted temporary deportation amnesty to “Dreamers,” the illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Mr. Trump stressed that those illegal immigrants are no longer children.

The president has demanded extra border security, including funding for a wall, as well as an end to family-based chain migration and the visa lottery program.

The deal hit a snag after reports Thursday that Mr. Trump told lawmakers at a meeting on immigration at the that the U.S. didn’t need more immigrants from “sh—hole countries” like Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries.
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While whether Trump said derogatory remarks about certain countries is in dispute, what I take from teh reaction of the Democrats is that they would rather have no deal if they have to give up chain migration and protected status for certain failed states.   What the Democrats are really worried about is also a merit-based system that would give preferences to people who would bring added value to the US.  They prefer a system that imports dependency so they can try to rebuild their shrinking base with uneducated migrants who need welfare to survive.

Trump should counter the racism charges by saying what he wants if a colorblind merit-based system of immigration.  That would expose what the Democrats are really up to and also expose that their racism charges are just a smoke screen for doing nothing.

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