The offer likely died before Trump even made it public. Democrats — and even some Republicans and Trump aides — have urged the president to back bills passed by the Democratic-held House to temporarily reopen the government before they hold border security talks.
In a statement before Trump spoke Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the proposal “a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.” Democrats noted that the proposal would not offer as much certainty to immigrants who, under previously discussed plans, would have been legally protected for longer and could have had a path to citizenship.
“It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter,” the California Democrat said.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin — the chamber’s second-ranking Democrat and one of the leading voices for the so-called Dreamers — also said he “cannot support the offer as reported and do not believe it can pass the Senate.” He said he would join talks to “resolve all outstanding issues” on immigration after the government is funded.
The rejection still leaves the path to reopening about a quarter of the government unclear. In December, Pelosi rejected a potential plan to fund the wall in exchange for legal protections or a possible path to citizenship for the immigrants.
When Republicans held both chambers of Congress last year, a more comprehensive agreement to resolve both issues fell apart. Trump rejected a deal for $25 billion in border wall funding along with legal status and a possible path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million undocumented immigrants. Lawmakers have sought a solution to protect the immigrants for years, and made it more of a priority when Trump tried to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in 2017.
A conversation last year about immigrants with temporary protected status in part led to talks collapsing.Durbin said Trump referred to Haiti and African countries as “s—hole” nations.
The president later claimed the senator “blew DACA.”
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