White House threatens veto of bipartisan immigration deal

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

The White House on Thursday said it would veto a bipartisan immigration deal being proposed in the Senate, saying it does not meet President Trump’s hardline demands.

“If the president were presented with an enrolled bill that includes the amendment, his advisors would recommend that he veto it,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

The bipartisan plan would shield 1.8 million young immigrants living illegally in the U.S., known as “Dreamers,” from deportation and provide $25 billion for border security measures — both elements of the White House’s immigration plan.

But the proposal does not go as far as the White House would like in curbing family-based immigration.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374046-white-house-threatens-veto-of-bipartisan-immigration-deal

[n2doc]

1. Pass it and force the issue

Make it clear where the fault lies.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This is simple, deplorables hate brown people and brown immigrants.

Great pain will be brought down on all of the brown people and immigrants until we defeat Russia in the war we are in with them.

[Fred Sanders]

5. The party of "family values" does not want family reunification? Black and white issue for them....

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I doubt Trump will get to dictate on this legislation

[bronxiteforever]

4. The GOP base of White Nationalists dont want it

And they are Trumps very fine people

[maxsolomon]

6. Negotiation is Hostage-taking to Trump

this mess is of his choosing. He wants the Wall out of the Deal because he thinks he'll be re-elected on it.

After the conversation I had with an elderly Trumpist on Tuesday night I believe it's a good bet.

[TeamPooka]

7. Fuck him, make him veto the bipartisan deal and assume responsibility he deserves

[PatSeg]

8. Yes

Dump it in his lap. It is pretty clear that he does not want an immigration bill. There is no pleasing him.

[lamp_shade]

12. This.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Yeah, so it passes, and Trump vetoes it. So what?

There seem to be no consequences of Trump's actions. He says and does all kinds of crap, and he gloats about it. He'll gladly veto any immigration bill that doesn't have a wall or an end to "chained" migration.

He assumes no responsibility, he just brags and gloats.

[TeamPooka]

21. If he says he'll shit on our dinner so we never even cook again?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. We cook again, but expect the same result. He never learns.

And he never, ever, apologizes for his deeds.

[awesomerwb1]

9. Hate to be a "Debbie Downer"

but I think cheetolini may have already won on this.

The White House and the hard core anti-immigrant right have successfully moved the posts so far to the right with their "four pillars" that anything, any form of relief is "amnesty".

They are successfully framing the long path to citizenship offered by cheetolini to 1.8 million dreamers (10 to 12 years for a green card + 5 for citizenship after that) as a massive very generous concession by the White House.

Not sure how the Dems will approach this. If they pass this, you can forget about relief for other undocumented people until the Dems safely control everything.

[TeamPooka]

13. Walking away from a bad deal is okay for the Dems this time....

Democrats must be ready to take this drastic step against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/02/14/its-time-for-democrats-to-take-this-drastic-step-against-trump/?utm_term=.f2d985adeab8

[msongs]

14. if dems pass this you can assume they have lost any moral credibility and become republicans nt

[awesomerwb1]

15. That's quite a dramatic comment

I don't know what's going to happen, but passing this wouldn't make the Dems "republican".

[bluestarone]

10. let the fucker veto it THEN

come on 2018!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Call the Orange chicken's bluff. Pass it and then ram it down his throat.

[demmiblue]

16. And the tweets begin:

[Kensan]

18. That WH statement is pretty rich...

If the White House is so concerned about law enforcement, perhaps they should begin by enforcing existing Russian sanctions.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. The "WH Statement" is actually from a bot site that reformats Drumpf's tweets into "statements"

https://twitter.com/realpresssecbot

[riversedge]

17. a news flash popped up that said the Senate does not have the votes to

override a veto. damn/

Politics
February 15, 2018 / 8:51 AM / Updated 14 minutes ago



White House rejects bipartisan Senate immigration plan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/white-house-rejects-bipartisan-senate-immigration-plan-idUSKCN1FZ1XF


Richard Cowan, Susan Cornwell

5 Min Read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House rejected on Thursday a bipartisan U.S. Senate proposal to protect young “Dreamer” immigrants and tighten border security, saying it would weaken enforcement of current law and produce a flood of illegal immigration.
Activists and DACA recipients march up Broadway during the start of their 'Walk to Stay Home,' a five-day 250-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C., to demand that Congress pass a Clean Dream Act, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Ahead of expected Senate votes, the White House said advisers would recommend that President Donald Trump veto the plan to protect from deportation 1.8 million young adults who were brought to the United States illegally as children.

“This amendment would drastically change our national immigration policy for the worse by weakening border security and undercutting existing immigration law,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

The Senate is debating at least four immigration measures as lawmakers race to resolve the status of Dreamers, who were protected under an Obama-era program. Trump has ordered that program to end by March 5, telling Congress it should come up with an alternative plan by then.

Votes on the four plans were due to start at about 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT).
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The proposal referred to by Sanders, which had been considered perhaps the most likely to succeed in the Senate, also includes a $25 billion fund to strengthen border security and possibly even build segments of Trump’s long-promised border wall with Mexico.

White House opposition to the plan appeared to target a provision that would direct the Department of Homeland Security to focus enforcement efforts on undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes, are a threat to national security or who arrive in the United States after June 30, 2018.

“Preventing enforcement with respect to people who entered our country illegally before a date that is in the future would produce a flood of new illegal immigration in the coming months,” Sanders said.

A White House official told reporters the bipartisan plan was “DOA,” or dead on arrival, if it passed the Senate. .................