16 September, 2017
Trump wants Congress to come up with a bill to protect DACA recipients.
President Donald Trump's base is outraged by his recent deals with Democrats, and they fear the signature issue of his campaign, building the border wall with Mexico, is now in jeopardy.
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer were invited to the White House by Trump on Wednesday night, where they discussed several topics, including a potential pathway to citizenship for DACA participants.
That was Breitbart News's contention last month, when The Washington Post published the transcript of a telephone conversation between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in which Trump said the wall is "the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important". "Plus BIG border security". His full interview with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi can be heard Saturday at 12 p.m. ET, Sunday at 1 a.m. ET and Sunday at 5 p.m. ET. They said, however, that the border wall was not part of the deal.
Towards the end of the meeting, Elena Hatib, president of the NYU College Republicans, attempted to quell the concerns of the pro-Trump faction, insisting that Trump's seeming betrayal of his promises was a product of the compromises necessary to govern in D.C. Most in the crowd, however, seemed unconvinced that Trump had been conducting savvy maneuvering in the aim of fulfilling his stated immigration policy goals.
While allowing young people who came to the US illegally to stay in the country is broadly popular, immigration hardliners consider it amnesty.
Democrats "will have to stomach" that an immigration bill is likely to be perceived as a political victory for Trump, adding that it would be "a real mistake" for Democrats to oppose the bill simply because they dislike Trump.
Sanders suggested that if President Donald Trump were to sign a bill allowing DACA recipients to stay in the U.S., it would not include permanent residency.
President Trump has the chance to accomplish what two former presidents could not. At his raucous campaign rallies, voters often broke out into chants of "build that wall".
The White House has repeatedly danced around what exactly would and would not qualify as "amnesty".
There's no guarantee that the common ground Trump found this week with Democrats on immigration will result in legislation. The GOP's failure to pass an Obamacare overhaul in particular soured Trump's view of Republican congressional leaders, according to advisers, and opened him up to the prospect of partnering with Democrats instead.
