Breaking: Congress Makes Move On DACA
JUST IN: Congress is set to reconvene in Washington D.C. this week, but DREAMers have no reason
to be excited about this.
USA Today reported that House Republican leaders are still trying to find enough votes to pass
a party-line immigration bill that has almost no chance of passing through the Senate, as
it will need a 60-vote majority to avoid a promised Democratic filibuster.
A week that was supposed to be a free-flowing immigration debate quickly fizzled, as the
Senate failed to advance four pieces of immigration legislation in just a couple of hours.
After this, Congress broke for a week-long recess.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said that he will bring up immigration
legislation in the future, but only if it is supported by Trump and if it is guaranteed
to pass.
Congress has been trying for months to reach a compromise to give legal certainty for the
immigrants whose parents brought them to the United States as children.
Back in September, Trump ended a Barack Obama-era program that protected nearly 800,000 of the
"DREAMers" from deportation, giving Congress until March 5 to find a solution.
The sense of urgency to reach a solution has decreased in the wake of a federal judge in
California ordering the Department of Homeland Security to resume the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program.
DACA will now continue at least until the Supreme Court weighs in.
Trump has issued a proposal granting amnesty for 1.8 DREAMers in exchange for $25 billion
to pay for a wall along the southern border and changes that would cut at least 25% from
the current number of legal immigrants.
This proposal failed 39-60 in the Senate last week, not even being able to get the support
of all 51 Republicans.
Trump also endorsed another immigration bill in the House that would provide narrower protections
to less than 800,000 DACA recipients.
Democrats opposing the bill say that it currently lacks enough support from Republicans to pass
without any Democratic votes.
However, Arizona Republican Rep. Martha McSally, an original co-sponsor of the bill, told reporters
that she is "pretty optimistic that we can get this bill to a place where we can get
it to the floor."
"Now that the Senate has failed, it's our opportunity in the House to put out there
a unifying proposal from the majority party," she continued.
What do you think about this?
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h/t Any Politics
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