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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is DACA part of this entire thing anyway? Trump cancelled it - it was always supposed to be DEFERRED action anyway - with instructions for Congress to come up with a plan in March.

So why are the Democrats using this issue as a hostage to find the government? It's like they are saying, "give the DACA kids amnesty, or we will shut down the government." Are the Dems really willing to kick nearly 1 million Americans out of work, keep elderly Americans from getting their SS checks, keep military heroes from getting medical care, and hurting so many Americans in other ways, all to get what's best for kids who came here illegally? I get that they were kids, but really....what's the urgency NOW, other than the fact the D's can use a government shutdown as a threat?

Take the DACA issue off the table completely, and address it in March, as was the plan.[/quote]

DACA is part part of the bargain because Trump struck a deal to pass the DREAM Act (the bipartisan fix to DACA) back in September when the Republicans couldn't develop a budget and needed Dem votes to avoid a shutdown.  So to get Dems to vote for the September CR, Trump agreed to a vote on the DREAM Act.  And that's clean passage of the DREAM Act, unrelated to any wall-with-Mexico crap.  Trump is the one who put it on the table.  The reason it's a hot issue now is because Trump and the Republicans have been trying to renege on their September agreement.  Republicans need to live up to their promises.

[code]President Donald Trump is offering amnesty and citizenship to at least 3.7 million illegal aliens and foreign residents, not just to the 800,000 DACA illegals
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/14/democrats-trump-okd-amnesty-dream-bill-3-3-million-illegals/[/code]

[quote]House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gave more details Thursday morning about the immigration deal that Democratic congressional leaders are negotiating with President Trump. She said above all else, Democrats want Trump to support the DREAM Act, which would extend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children and includes a path to citizenship.  "That has been our insistence in every conversation with the speaker and the president," Pelosi said.  [u]In exchange, Democrats are willing to spend some money on border security — though not a wall.[/u]  While the exact details of the deal are still in the works, [u]Republican congressional leaders are begrudgingly going along with it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that President Trump called him Thursday morning to discuss the immigration deal.[/u] 
https://www.vox.com/2017/9/13/16305690/top-democrats-announced-daca-deal-trump[/quote]

[quote]Toward the end of the Problem Solvers Caucus meeting Wednesday, Trump suggested his proposed border wall with Mexico need not be part of a deal allowing "Dreamers" to stay in the country legally — an idea he would later share with Pelosi and Schumer.  Democrats didn't even have to ask, they said in interviews.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-09-15/his-daca-flip-may-enrage-the-right-but-the-trump-remains-the-same[/quote]

[quote]A potential deal between President Trump and Democratic leaders to protect immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children is likely to benefit vulnerable House Republicans in 2018, according to a Republican strategist.  Trump got flak from his conservative supporters for entertaining an agreement with Democrats on how to legislatively restore the Deferred Action on Childhood Deportations (DACA) program, including Breitbart News and radio host Laura Ingraham. But the move is being applauded by 2018 watchers who are rooting for Republicans to hold onto their House majority in the face of motivated Democrats.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-daca-deal-could-lift-vulnerable-house-republicans/article/2634600[/quote]

More analysis of the September politics here - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/17/trumps-dalliances-with-hill-dems-its-all-in-numbers.html[/quote]

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