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The “very stable genius” (VSG) promised in his impromptu negotiating session, he would sign whatever they bring him as a compromise.
The very first attempt at this, when Graham and Durbin brought him such a proposal, did not go ‘according to Hoyle’. Sheer genius, at work there!
Well not to be undone by the Wrecking-ball Tweeter, the bi-partisan DACA Negotiators have kept at it, and have honed in on what will likely be their “next compromise”, that someone will have to bring to the man that would be king. Let’s hope it’s not ‘kill the messenger’ season at the White House, on that day ...
The final agreement has wins for each side, including funding for a physical structure on the border. But the White House has yet to sign on.
by Andrew Desiderio, Sam Stein, thedailybeast.com — 01-11-2018
Congressional negotiators finalized an immigration deal on Thursday that would codify legal protections for undocumented minors while giving President Donald Trump some tangible victories of his own.
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The final deal will codify the legal protections for so-called DREAMers that Trump rescinded when he ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that began under his predecessor. The deal also seeks to undo another Trump decision: the termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for certain groups of immigrants, including Salvadorans, 200,000 of whom could face an end to their legal status in 2019.
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Flake confirmed those details to The Daily Beast. He said the DACA fix agreed to as part of the deal includes a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers. Additionally, they will have to wait 12 years from the time they are awarded protected status before they can gain citizenship, according to a congressional source familiar with the negotiations, and they can earn up to two years of credit for any time spent as a DACA beneficiary. Groups of immigrants such as Salvadorans would be able to access the diversity visa lottery program if they have Temporary Protected Status, according to Flake.
In exchange for backpedaling two of his initiatives, Trump would score some real policy victories. The deal will revamp but not end the visa lottery program, numerous sources said. The formula for so-called chain migration—the policy whereby lawful permanent residents can sponsor immigrants to the U.S.—was re-drawn in a way that alters the ability of those DREAMers to sponsor their relatives for legal status.
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The final deal will also include money for some sort of physical structure along the southern border. Just what that structure will be called and what it will resemble is still unclear. [...]
I personally think the Dems could hold out for more. It’s the Republicans and the VSG that they foolishly prop-up, that have something to prove — not the Democratic Party, the party of the little guy, the indignant — the Party of the People. That would be All people, especially immigrants, with whom most of us share a similar heritage ... if you look back far enough.
Republicans on the other hand, day after day show themselves to be the Party of the Rich and the Well-connected. And worse yet they will now be stained as the Party of White Nationalists, if their Dear Leader keeps telling the world, what he really thinks — Genius that he is.
It is the Republicans that have something to lose — if they haven’t already lost it already — and that would be their Integrity and claimed love of ‘basic American Values’. That is something that each of them has already cast into the wind, once they signed up as “loyal” Deck-hands on that luxury cruiser, the SS Trump.
The smart ones among them can see the writing on the 2018 Mid-term wall, have decided to take — euphemistically speaking — their early retirements …
Meanwhile the fates of those, that still believe in “family” and in the “Idea of America” — still hangs in a precarious balance.