VP Pence tells Mark Levin that Trump will NOT cave: ‘The president is not budging’

[Emjay]

Yes,  but many members of his base reject Reagan's shining city,  and want to suspend or reduce legal immigration.

Give it up @Jazzhead   No one, especially Donald Trump and his base wants to suspend or reduce legal immigration.  In fact, legal immigration will become easier when we get a handle on the rampant illigal immigration.

Get another cause, or I will start ignoring you.

[edpc]

So neither side will budge, as innocents suffer.   Just effing craptastic.   How did we get to this?    Sure would like to have the full $25 billion in exchange for the Dreamers, which if I recall was what the deal was last year before Trump torpedoed it. 

Trump can maintain his stance only so long as Mitch McConnell lets him.   McConnell's refusal to consider House spending bills that Trump won't sign has held so far,  but as airports experience nightmare lines and other tangible impacts of the shutdown are felt,   can that stance hold?   

The best way forward is to get another Wall-for-DACA deal on the table,  only this time it won't come with as much funding as the deal last year would have secured.  And, of course, Trump's base will yell and scream about the horrors of "amnesty" for folks brought to this country as kids.   At some point Trump is going to have to do something he's loathe to do - tell his base that they're going to have to settle.

According to Axios, he's going to do what you had outlined.


President Trump plans to use remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room on Saturday afternoon to propose a notable immigration compromise, according to sources familiar with the speech.

Details: The offer is expected to include Trump’s $5.7 billion demand for wall money in exchange for the BRIDGE Act — which would extend protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — and also legislation to extend the legal status of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, according to a source with direct knowledge.

https://www.axios.com/trump-expected-immigration-compromise-speech-border-wall-a8713395-d085-4921-a0c8-699872dcd534.html


This link explains the BRIDGE Act....

https://immigrationforum.org/article/bridge-act-bipartisan-solution-dreamers/

[EdJames]

Now you've gone and done it...  heads will explode reading the words DACA, Kushner, BRIDGE!!  Watch out!!

[libertybele]

Now you've gone and done it...  heads will explode reading the words DACA, Kushner, BRIDGE!!  Watch out!!

Any form of amnesty is not acceptable; he budged.