Trump: Immigration Deal Presented Thursday 'Was A Big Step Backwards'
By Susan Jones | January 12, 2018 | 8:17 AM EST
According to The Washington Times, the deal offered Mr. Trump less than 10 percent of his border wall, and only a 3 percent cut to existing paths of family-based chain migration.
It would have eliminated the Diversity Visa Lottery, but it would have taken those 50,000 annual lottery visas and used them to create a new pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of foreigners in the U.S. under temporary humanitarian protections (TPS).
The majority of those TPS immigrants are from countries such as El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras, and -- according to the Times -- "the demand that they be covered in any immigration deal appeared to irk the president." (It was in this context that he made the "shithole countries" comment.)
The DACA fix offered by Durbin-Graham et al reportedly includes a 12-year pathway to citizenship for dreamers, who would be able to sponsor relatives for temporary legal status in the United States.
Earlier this week, in his televised meeting with Republicans and Democrats, Trump laid out his non-negotiable elements of immigration reform:
"Any legislation on DACA must secure the border with a wall, it must give our immigration officers the resources they need to stop illegal immigration, and also to stop visa overstays, and crucially, the legislation must end chain migration. It must end the visa lottery. Dangerous," Trump said.
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