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struggle4progress

(118,330 posts)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:18 PM Jan 2018

Times the White House changed position on DACA

... In mid-September, Democratic leaders .. Pelosi and .. Schumer joined .. Trump for .. dinner. They left insinuating they had struck a deal on .. DACA ... But ... Trump then managed to sow ... confusion ...

On October 8, the White House made .. clear .. they were "not interested" in giving DREAMers a path to citizenship ...

By the end of November, the two top Democrats .. pulled out of a meeting with Trump .. after he tweeted that he didn’t "see a deal" happening ...

... in mid-December ... the White House .... aligned with .. hardline immigration hawks ...

On January 11 .. Graham .. and .. Durbin .. pitched .. a plan that would give DREAMers a chance at legal status ...

Trump .. nixed the idea .. complaining about immigrants from "shithole" .. countries ...

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/26/16932882/white-house-position-platform-daca

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Times the White House changed position on DACA (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
Trump expresses openness to shifting DACA deadline struggle4progress Jan 2018 #1
I think Miller had a hand in the newest version so that means it is BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #2

struggle4progress

(118,330 posts)
1. Trump expresses openness to shifting DACA deadline
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:24 PM
Jan 2018

By Betsy Klein, CNN
Updated 7:25 AM ET, Fri January 26, 2018

... The White House released its framework for immigration reform Thursday, which proposes giving 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship in exchange for $25 billion for the long-promised wall and a host of other strict immigration reforms.

A White House official sold the plan as a "compromise position" that it believes would get 60 votes in the Senate -- a point White House officials underscored multiple times on Thursday -- and then could be "sent over to the House for additional improvement and modification ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/politics/trump-daca-deadline/

BigmanPigman

(51,623 posts)
2. I think Miller had a hand in the newest version so that means it is
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 12:48 AM
Jan 2018

BAD! Senator Harris(CA) isn't very happy about it and I trust her opinion.

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