Democrats furious over Trump's immigration rhetoric

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Democrats furious over Trump's immigration rhetoric
The opposition party says the president has only made a Dreamers deal harder to reach.
By BURGESS EVERETT, SEUNG MIN KIM and ELANA SCHOR 01/31/2018 01:00 AM EST

Democrats were infuriated by President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech, claiming the president put an immigration deal even further out of reach with what they called bigoted remarks during the 80-minute address.

After Trump and his White House team teased a bipartisan theme, the minority party was waiting to hear something conciliatory about how to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants facing deportation. Instead, Democrats booed Trump’s reference to “chain migration” and fumed afterward that his remarks conflated immigrants with gang members and did little to give so-called Dreamers any reassurance at all.

“The tone was of a divider-in-chief,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “It was a red-meat appeal to the anti-immigrant base of his party, not the unifying, coming-together appeal that we all know is necessary.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/state-of-the-union-democrats-congress-379571

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1. NOW we do a 'government shutdown' for full 1.8 million DACA eligible!

Add it to the next CR just like CHIP!

If everyone wants this - if everyone agrees it's the right thing to do for all these kids who grow up knowing nowhere else, who know no other home - then this is a chance for the R's to get this behind them.

It's a win-win!