Thread: VIDEO: White House DACA/Dreamers Immigration Plan Reveal Next Week

VIDEO: White House DACA/Dreamers Immigration Plan Reveal Next Week


Sarah Sanders announces that the White House will bring forward its legislative plan on immigration that includes its four pillars, including a permanent solution for DACA.

This plan follows dozens of meetings on immigration.

Four Components:

1) Limit chain migration,

2) Visa Lottery,

3) Border Security/Wall,

4) DACA

Questions include if Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Mark Meadows signed off on the plan.

(UPDATE Wednesday Evening- President Trump wants a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. How big an amnesty was not mentioned.

I want great border security.

It is good for republicans. Our issue.

Incentive to work hard, looking at 10-12 years. )


White House Link.






https://youtu.be/a8BOW-pqotg

President Trump talked to reporters today and said that he will get 25 billion dollars for border wall.

Permanent citizenship for "dreamers" and citizenship within 10-12 years is his plan.

He looked at John Kelly and said you better have this worked out when I get back.

Audio Tape of the President's comments released by CNN.

White House says 'immigration framework' will be unveiled next week

January 24, 2018

Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju

Washington (CNN)The White House will release a "legislative framework" for an immigration deal on Monday that it believes can earn bipartisan support, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.

"There's nothing currently on the table that addresses all of the concerns that we feel like -- brings all the various stakeholders to the table like this framework does. And the President wants to lead on this issue, and that's exactly what we're going to do," Sanders said Wednesday.


She declined to provide details about what would be included in the framework, including whether it would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, known as Dreamers, signaling only that it will represent "a compromise that members of both parties can support."



The White House's plan comes after the latest negotiations between the White House and lawmakers of both parties broke down, leading to a three-day government shutdown.




The framework is expected to give much-needed guidance to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who have at times struggled to grasp what kind of deal President Donald Trump would and would not be willing to reach.


Several lawmakers have expressed frustration in recent weeks that the guidance from the White House has been unclear or inconsistent.




South Carolina's Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key Republican negotiator, called the White House's plan to release a framework "excellent," noting the importance of getting the White House's "input."




Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, an immigration hard-liner aligned with the White House, said he spoke with Trump on Wednesday about this issue and that the President remains committed to the core pillars he had previously laid out.



Sanders reiterated those requirements on Wednesday: "securing the border and closing legal loopholes, ending extended family chain migration, canceling the visa lottery and providing a permanent solution on DACA."


Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said he had offered and then rescinded border wall funding in exchange for Dreamer protections, said Wednesday he was looking for a reset.



"We're starting over," Schumer told CNN on Wednesday when asked about the latest on the standoff over Congress' plans for addressing the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. "I took our thing off -- they took their thing off the table, I took our thing, we're starting over."



Schumer was referring to an offer he made Trump last week to authorize upward of $20 billion for a border wall, a signature campaign pledge for the President, in exchange for protecting recipients of DACA, young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children. Trump decided last fall to end the program by March 5, and Congress has since failed to reach agreement with the White House about how to extend it.
The White House rejected Schumer's offer.



https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/polit...nes-fisa-memo/

Talk on immigration, citizenship possibility in this interview with Marc Short, President Trump's legislative aide.

Follow link to entire audio interview and transcript.

• Judy Woodruff:
  We return now to our lead story, the compromise struck to get the government back to work for now.
  I sat down just a short time ago with Marc Short, director of legislative affairs at the White House, to ask President Trump’s reaction to the deal.
  
  
• Marc Short:
  Well, Judy, we’re pleased that the government has reopened.
  We never understood what the position was of Senate Democrats to take American troops hostage and Customs and Border Patrol agents hostage over an issue that really they — everything in the bill that’s in front of them from a continuing resolution to reauthorizing children’s health insurance, there was nothing Democrats opposed.
  There was a separate issue that was not on the table they were trying to inject into this. So we’re pleased the government is open, and now we can reopen negotiations with Democrats on the DACA issue and immigration.
  
  
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• Judy Woodruff:
  Well, let’s talk about that separate issue, the DACA recipients, these young people who came to this country with their parents, without documentation, but, again, as you say, through no fault of their own.
  Sarah Sanders, the White House spokesperson, said today that the president is now prepared to accept permanent residency, a permanent solution for them. What does that mean? Does that mean citizenship?
  

• Marc Short:
  The president is willing to have a conversation about citizenship, Judy.
  I think that, in addition to that, so far in the negotiations, where we have moved is that Democrats have said that the 690,000 people who have those DACA permits that are age 16 to 36, who have those DACA work permits, that has been a discussion so far. But Democrats have asked us to expand that to include others in there and including something closer to the number in the full DREAM Act.
  We have said we’re willing to do that, Judy. So, we think there’s actually a lot of significant progress on our side to the things that they have asked for. In addition, it seems that Democrats have had a lot more willingness to talk about the needs we have on border security that Customs and Border Patrol has said is needed to help secure the southern border.
  So we see progress. It was all the more reason we were confounded by why Democrats decided to shut down the government when there was progress going on in the negotiations.
  

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tr...house-official

Trump says immigration plan will let protections for younger immigrants “morph into” citizenship in 10-12 years

By Associated Press January 24 at 5:55 PM

WASHINGTON — Trump says immigration plan will let protections for younger immigrants “morph into” citizenship in 10-12 years.

Related:

Trump Signals He Might Extend DACA Deadline

https://www.alipac.us/f12/trump-sign...adline-354934/