I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients & a twelve year pathway to citizenship, for two reasons: (1) Because the Republicans want to fix a long time terrible problem. (2) To show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
Democrats’ don’t know what they want.
Via Breitbart:
President Donald Trump carefully distanced himself from his unpopular amnesty proposal late Saturday night, saying that it is intended to show the GOP’s sincerity and the Democrats’ cynicism and obstructionism.
The giveaway amnesty deal was instantly and universally slammed by the Democrats’ ethnic and progressive activists, although Democratic leaders were careful to pocket the uncapped amnesty offer while demanding yet more concessions. The proposal emerged as Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer told the New York Times that he had agreed to fund wall construction in a face-to-face meeting with Trump while privately believing he could not deliver on the deal.
Trump’s pro-American voters were hostile to the amnesty offer, which opens the door to a massive, unregulated, unending amnesty of far more than 1.8 million illegals.
The amnesty would greatly help business groups and their lobbies, such as the Koch brothers, partly by aborting widespread wage raises before the November election. Trump’s top congressional aide, Marc Short, is a former senior aide to the Koch brothers.[…]
Trump could put his amnesty offer on hold and instead ask voters in November to pick either his popular immigration policy or the Democrats’ very unpopular, easy-immigration agenda.
That Democratic agenda includes the demand that the hugely valuable prize of citizenship be granted to the 3.25 million ‘dreamer’ illegals, their parents and millions of additional illegals, regardless of the economic and civic impact on 320 million Americans and legal immigrants who are dreaming about their futures — and their children’s futures.
That pro-illegal agenda was displayed mid-January when Senate Democrats shut down the federal budget — including the defense budget — while demanding an amnesty. The Democrats were forced to retreat amid growing public opposition, unexpected GOP criticism, and Trump’s sharp-elbowed Tweets.