Irrational resistance stoops to new low.

DEMS FEAR TRUMP MAY TAKE OVER DACA DEBATE

WILL GO TO ANY LENGTH TO PRESERVE DACA AS THEIR ISSUE

President Trump has voiced his willingness to find a solution to the issue of illegal immigrants brought here by their parents while they were minors. They did not have control of their destiny at the time. Many have lived a large part of their lives in the USA. The president has repeatedly voiced his desire to have a solution that would give this group of people a permanent legal status and possibly a path to citizenship.

When the president held a large bi-partisan meeting at the white house he made it clear, I watched the whole event, that he wanted reform of chain migration, an end to the visa lottery system and heightened border security, including a wall in some areas of the border. The Democrats preferred a legal status or extension of the existing status of DACA people without any conditions. Passing such a clean DACA bill as they call it would then allow these people to bring into the country possibly 10x their numbers including their parents who broke the law by bringing them here in the first place. This will not be acceptable to the president or most of the republicans. The president has offered to support legislation that would make the DACA people legal permanently, not temporary as the current situation. It seems that the democrats are more interested in keeping DACA as a wedge issue with which they can demonize the republicans and Trump.The president stated that he hoped the congress could come up with a bill he could sign and had faith that they could do it. This is when everything went haywire.

The democrats realized Trump was possibly going to remove the DACA question before the next election, they felt they had to do whatever was necessary to keep the DACA issue solely their issue. First they got together with never-Trumper Linsey Graham, Jeff Flake and with a total of 6 senators, they called Trump and told him that they had a bill that would satisfy the president. When they arrived at the white house, they found that Trump had asked some republican sponsors of a DACA fix to attend to discuss the proposal. When Trump saw that the proposal did not address chain migration, the visa lottery, and allowed a mere 1.6 billion for border security he was not happy with their misrepresentation of their idea. There were harsh words expressed by many in the room. It seems the whole endeavor was an attempt to squeeze Trump out of the discussion by labeling him a racist and making any proposals by him unacceptable. Dick Durbin ran to the press to spin the whole meeting stressing the conversations, claiming Trump had agreed and then changed his mind, claimed Trump had told them to come back in 2 days after the original meeting, which was not true.They also thought that maybe they could force Trump to accept a clean DACA. It really did not work. It did set back any real bi-partisan hope of addressing these DACA people.

The next attempt was to tie a clean DACA to the budget. The Democrats refused to vote for the budget unless they got their way on DACA. It has not worked. Now their next proposal is to draw up a DACA law in the Senate and then try to force the House to approve it, knowing a law without the reforms will not pass the House. They can then blame it on Trump and the Republican house.

The republican solution should be to introduce and pass legislation in the house with all the required reforms and then send it over to the Senate. Then the Senate will get to either vote on a law that legalizes the DACA'S  permanently either up or down. The chess playing has just begun. You can expect this to continue for at least the next year.