The reason they went for it is that they’ve become desperate about the state of the military that Obama left in shambles. But that shouldn’t cause you to cave on everything else because Democrats were failures.
Via Daily Caller:
Buried in the 2,232-page omnibus spending proposal are several provisions addressing much of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda: the border wall, detention of illegal immigrants, guest worker visas, and the hiring of immigration agents.
None of them come close to delivering on Trump’s immigration priorities, says Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). In a scathing statement released Thursday, Stein ripped into “Congressional leadership and the business lobby” for caving on border security and guest worker visas.
“The omnibus released last night leaves our nation’s security at risk and sets up a betrayal of the most vulnerable American workers who have seen their jobs and wages decimated by bad immigration policies,” he said.
Trump, who reportedly expressed misgivings about the spending bill, said in a tweet Thursday morning that the bill delivered $1.6 billion to “start wall on the southern border.” But the true number set aside for border barriers is actually $1.375 billion, and not a cent of that will go toward constructing a wall in the style of any of the prototypes currently being tested in California.