Thread: Trump Pushes for Only One Fifth of Border Wall Funding

Almost 85% of House Republicans supported the Goodlatte bill which was Trump's 70 point plan plus 3, 3 year renewal permits for 590,000 DACA's if they met certain requirements. No path to citizenship. There was also a change in the H-2A agricultural visa program that extended the period from 6 months to 1 year, renewable for 3 years so year round farming operations could hire these workers if they could show the labor wasn't available in their area and couldn't be drawn into the area from an American work force. It had pretty stiff verification requirements.

That bill had 195 Republican votes, but needed 218 to pass, so it was 23 votes short, probably because we and some others so strongly opposed it. Trump negotiated that whole thing, it was actually a very good bill if you wanted to stop illegal immigration and fix our laws on illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration. Trump's 70 point plan all in that one bill, plus the $25 billion for the wall. But as a trade off, it granted DACA renewals to existing DACAs, but without a pathway to citizenship.

So, we said NO DACA DEAL and at least 39 listened to us and voted no, so the bill failed. It would have failed in the Senate anyway, because we didn't have 60 Republicans to pass the bill and couldn't find 9 DemoQuacks to vote with Republicans, so it doesn't really matter.

Under our system, you need votes in Congress to appropriate funds and pass laws and Republicans even if they all voted for what we wanted, couldn't pass a bill without DemoQuack support and there is none to be had, then or now.

There is some very good high tech security that would accomplish this, perhaps for something closer to the amount already appropriated by Congress---something like $700 million. In the case of the caravan, this was informally announced anyway, giving us an opportunity to get the military and added CBP there.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN0XP28J

Border security Expo in San Antonio, TX:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRM46Jkmrow

The overlooked part of our immigration policy is that we are still allowing advocay for illegals to go on almost unchecked.

Asking for this pie-in-the-sky project---and meanwhile conceding in several other areas---is not going to get us anywhere.

When you don't have the votes, it's all pie-in-the-sky.