US president Donald Trump on Saturday sought to break the stalemate that has shut down the federal government partially for 30 days now with a proposals that was rejected by Democrats as a \u201cnon-starter\u201d even before he had spelt it out in a speech he had teased the day before as a \u201cmajor announcement\u201d coming.<\/p>\n
The president proposed a three-year reprieve from deportation for 700,000 people brought to the US as children, protected thus far by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and those with Temporary Protection Status for $5.7 billion for a wall\/barrier along the southern border. He also proposed funding for hiring more officers and immigration judges and for legal ports of entry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a common-sense compromise both parties should embrace,\u201d Trump said, and aded that it should break the logjam and provide Congress with a path forward.<\/p>\n
But Democrats, who had not been involved in the negotiations and discussion that went into the making of the proposal, rejected it even before the president\u2019s address. Calling his proposal a \u201cnon-starter\u201d, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement, \u201cinitial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n
Democrats plan to put to vote a set of bills of their own in the House of Representatives next week to fund the shuttered government\u2019s departments and end the shutdown.<\/p>\n
They plan to put an additional $1 billion funding for border security – in addition to the $1.3 billion already made – but not for a wall or a barrier, which Pelosi has called \u201cimmoral\u201d.<\/p>\n
To Trump\u2019s grief, even some conservatives, including Ann Coulter, an influential commentator, have dismissed his plan calling it, derisively as \u201camnestying\u201d illegal immigrants, the DACA and TPS recipients, mischaracterizing the three-year reprieve as path to citizenship. And their voices matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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