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US republicans unveil immigration bill, trump demands funds for wall

January 14, 2018 12:41·

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The announcement comes days after a federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to end DACA. At their Oval Office meeting, two sources said, Trump questioned the value of taking immigrants from Haiti and African nations, and referred to them as "shithole countries". After an afternoon meeting with a group working on the deal, Flake emerged saying they "are closer". Trump has said repeatedly that he wants a bipartisan immigration deal.

White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short told reporters on Capitol Hill that the group - which included Flake; Graham; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; Cory Gardner, R-Colo.; and Robert Menendez, D-N.J. - presented what amounted to a small group agreement but the White House did not sign off.

On Saturday night, US Citizenship and Immigration Services said those previously granted deferred action under DACA may request renewal by filing the proper forms.

"The fact remains - the only way to guarantee legal status for the dreamers is to pass DACA protections into law and do it now".

The group, which also consists of Sens. Richard Durbin of IL - a leader of the bipartisan Senate group - was among the seven lawmakers at the noontime meeting. The president went on to suggest that if Congress failed to protect those Dreamers, he would "revisit the issue", and, ostensibly, protect them himself. "There's no other way to look at this", Rep. Luis Gutierrez. Many have disappeared underground, have become as Livier says, "to be very much invisible". "I tell them it's not permanent, so anything that is not permanent can end". "Stop changing the terms of their freedom".

A group of US Republican lawmakers has unveiled the details of an immigration bill that has the support of President Donald Trump. The person said the language was salty on both sides, CNN reported.

A border security provision is likely to include more money for a mix of additional physical barriers and technology along the US border with Mexico but probably not a border wall on the scale that Trump campaigned on in 2016.

"That helps for those who have envisioned this big concrete brick and mortar wall". Trump said he would, before adding that such a bill should include "border security" as well. We need the wall for security.

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Trump denies "shithole countries" comments
The president implied Friday morning on Twitter that maybe he should start recording meetings because there is no trust. He then reportedly asked why the United States didn't bring in more immigrants from a country like Norway .

It was not clear what criteria Trump was prioritizing in his description, but 95 percent of Haiti's residents are black, while 83 percent of Norway's residents are Norwegian by descent (only 8.5 percent of the country's population is neither Norwegian nor European).

He condemned the opposition Democrats for not supporting his travel ban and the construction of the wall to fence out Mexican immigrants, arguing that, as a result, "USA would be forced to take large numbers of people from high crime countries which are doing badly".

The Trump administration had planned to rescind work permits for the young undocumented immigrants, insisting that it was for Congress to find a solution to the issue of their status.

For years, Congress has weighed clamping down on what conservatives call "chain migration", which opens the door for immediate relatives of legal immigrants to come the United States - often following a protracted wait time.

The president and lawmakers are in the midst of intense negotiations about how to shield almost 800,000 "dreamers" from deportation.

"Well I would not be willing to give people who entered the country illegally a special pathway to citizenship that would have put them ahead of people who have gone through the long, legal process to enter this country legally", stated Goodlatte.

Democrats need to give more in return, Cotton said, including ending the diversity visa program and more border security.

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