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Trump threatens government shutdown if Democrats don't back immigration reform

President Donald Trump called on Congress to fix immigration laws in a series of Twitter posts.

He threatened to 'shut down' the federal government if Democrats refused to back his demands for reform, including a border wall.

Javier E. David
Published 1 Hour Ago
Updated 43 Mins Ago CNBC.com

President Donald Trump called on Congress to enact sweeping immigration reform, including a border wall, and threatened a federal government shutdown if Democrats refused to back his proposals.

In a series of early morning posts on Twitter, the president lambasted Congress over immigration reform. He then threatened to shut down the government if Congress didn't move U.S. laws "based on MERIT!"

Earlier this year, the White House released a proposal for merit-based immigration, which floundered in Congress amid tepid support from within the president's own party.

The administration's framework included a $25 billion "trust fund" for a border wall, a path to citizenship for "Dreamer" immigrants, and an end to foreign visa lotteries that would end a program "riddled with abuse." In an analysis of the proposal, the libertarian Cato Institute called the plan "draconian", and said it would reduce legal immigration by up to 44 percent per year.

Amid searing images of undocumented families being separated at the border, Trump defended the controversial practice — which was in place under the Obama administration. Trump warned that there were "consequences when people cross our Border illegally." He argued that parents attempting to cross the border are "using children for their own sinister purposes."

Trump's tweet Sunday came several days after the government said more than 1,800 children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reunited with parents, and sponsors after a federal judge ordered the reunions. Hundreds of children still remain separated.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/29/trum...-security.html

BUILD THE WALL!!!!!!

The administration's framework included a $25 billion "trust fund" for a border wall, a path to citizenship for "Dreamer" immigrants, and an end to foreign visa lotteries that would end a program "riddled with abuse."

Trump: I Will ‘Shut Down’ Government over Wall Funding, Catch and Release



July 29, 2018


John Binder

On Sunday, Trump took to Twitter to not only call the United States’ immigration laws the “DUMBEST & WORST” around the world — the U.S. imports more than 1.5 million foreign nationals every year — but also sent a warning to Congress where he says the government will be shut down if he does not get his funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and an end to Catch and Release.

Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border illegally, whether they have children or not – and many are just using children for their own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote “R”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018

I would be willing to “shut down” government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018

House Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS), have tied $5 billion in southern border wall funding to a slew of pro-open borders and pro-big business immigration changes.


For example, as Breitbart Newsnoted, GOP-run House appropriations committee voted to revive President Obama’s Catch and Release policies — where illegal aliens and asylum seekers are caught at the border, then released into the U.S. general public — by deliberately defunding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tightening of asylum laws.
Yoder and the GOP-led House appropriations committee’s efforts to codify the Catch and Release policy into law would give the entire populations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — 32 million Central Americans — the right to migrate to the U.S., as well as any other foreign nationals who travel to the country and claim they are fleeing gangs or domestic violence. This translates to a foreign population at least half the sizeof the American midwest being given the right to migrate to the country under the GOP’s Homeland Security funding measure.


The border wall funding has also been tied to a green card giveaway for at least 200,000 Indian nationals who are in the U.S. on guest worker visas, Breitbart News reported, along with a tripling of the number of H-2B visa workers who let into the country and allowed to take U.S. blue collar jobs and an expansion of the H-2A visa program, which would deliver more cheap foreign workers to farms across the country.

.@KrisKobach1787: “Asylum would become meaningless and rampant with fraud because anyone can say that they live in fear of gang violence. This would be a colossal mistake for Republicans to support this.”https://t.co/Bbtn2Oubjp
— John Binder �� (@JxhnBinder) July 27, 2018

Despite immigration being the number one issue for GOP voters in the midterm elections, Senate and House Republicans are already touting a plan to not fund the border wall before the midterms.


In a recent interview with local media, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he would “probably” hold off on funding the border wall until after the midterm elections.

“That’s not going to happen,” McConnell said when asked about a shut down of the government.

Midterm voters have repeatedly said they want less immigration to the U.S. A majority of swing voters and white voters in battleground districts say immigration from Central America and Mexico has made life in America “worse.” More than four-in-nine black Americans in swing districts say the same of immigration.

Meanwhile, nearly two-in-three likely American voters say they want to see legal immigration to the U.S. reduced, as Breitbart News noted. A most recent poll found that a majority of conservatives say they generally oppose all immigration to the U.S.
Most recent polling finds that a majority of white, black, and Hispanic Americans support Trump’s agenda of increased immigration enforcement with stricter measures.

Congress has until September 30 to fund the federal government.

Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants every year. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the legal and illegal immigrant population is expected to make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population if current immigration levels continue.



https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...all-shut-down/

Reported that President Trump has been told and understands that shutting down the government prior to mid-term elections would not be wise or in the interests of republicans.

MR PRESIDENT .
YOU KNOW BEST , DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO . FOR OUR COUNTRY (THE DEM DON'T LISTEN WELL YOUR THE BOSS .) YOU TOLD THE DEM MANY TIME & THEY DID NOT LISTEN WELL IT TIME TO SHUT IT DOWN

Originally Posted by southBronx

MR PRESIDENT .
YOU KNOW BEST , DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO . FOR OUR COUNTRY (THE DEM DON'T LISTEN WELL YOUR THE BOSS .) YOU TOLD THE DEM MANY TIME & THEY DID NOT LISTEN WELL IT TIME TO SHUT IT DOWN

Congress blew the last budget deadline with CR after CR, and they will have had another year to resolve what the failed to resolve in last year's budget. So it is time to call their bluff! They are trying to run the clock out.