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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why hasn't the Trump administration hired more Border Patrol agents and immigration officials? Fiddling while Rome burns seems to be this administration's MO.[/quote]

Why hasn't Congress passed a bill that would allow for more border barriers to discourage easy entry to our country?  [/quote]
There was $25billion in border security funding that was offered just this past December. Trump turned it down. Instead he opted for about $5bil. Not sure how that helps the border situation.[/quote]
Will promote more DACAs. Dems wanted money in exchange for DACA. Trump refused (kudos).[/quote]
Trump initially said he would agree on the deal, then he said he wouldn't. He was for it before he was against it.

He had no problems earlier last year about giving them a pathway to citizenship, but after much criticism from the far right, he backed off.

https://apnews.com/e4536bf8932e43ea89203a16d904c561
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The White House unveiled a proposal Thursday that provides a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants living in the country illegally, in exchange for new restrictions on legal immigration and $25 billion in border security. .....The conservative Breitbart News, seen as a barometer of Trump’s nationalist base, declared it “Don’s Amnesty Bonanza.”[/quote][/quote]

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