Trump mulling immigration bill with pathway to legal status: CNN

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



28 FEB 2017 AT 15:14 ET

President Donald Trump is considering introducing legislation to provide a pathway to legal status, but not immediately to citizenship, for illegal immigrants in the United States, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing a senior White House official.

CNN said the president thinks a comprehensive immigration bill that would allow illegal immigrants to hold a job and require them to pay taxes has a chance of clearing Congress, and it said Trump may refer to the idea of legislation in a speech on Tuesday night.

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[angstlessk]

1. AKA 'The Dream Act'

[Squinch]

2. Is this the pattern? Every time he gets very big pushback he reverses course?

Glad of it, but how cliché: the bully that turns tail when someone punches back.

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Yes, definitely

I first noticed it when the pastor in Det scolded him and he immediately became quite docile and accomodating.

[Squinch]

10. So we do need to do the work to keep up the "very big pushbacks." On the regular.

And luckily, they're fun to do.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. for sure

Most bullies expect their victims to passively "take it". They really don't know what to do when the victim decides to punch back harder.

[yallerdawg]

3. Is he "triangulating"?

A little "Only Nixon could go to China"?

Or - why would we believe a damn thing coming out of his mouth and this administration!

When you tell your constituents these illegals are murderers, criminals, rapists and drug dealers who have taken your jobs, let's let them stay here working?

I hope no one in Washington believes this line of crap for one second!

[Squinch]

13. I'm not holding my breath, but even the statement shows fear of the constituents. The loud and

obnoxious ones. Like you and me.

[yallerdawg]

20. If he trots this out for some kind of applause tonight...

I hope he gets nothing but stunned, jaw-dropping silence.

Or - at best - first responders carrying whiplash victims out of the building on stretchers!

[Squinch]

23. I hope his whole schtick gets jaw dropping silence. But I won't be watching. He's not my

president, and he wouldn't know the state of the union if he tripped over it.

[notdarkyet]

4. We'll see. Maybe he figured out its bad optics to deport millions who have

Lived here most their lives. We'll see.

[cstanleytech]

7. Or maybe the wealthy and the corporations for which they stand threatened him because of

the lack of cheap labor they were facing.

[elmac]

22. This is his only motivation, money

corporations, farms are set to see a huge labor shortage and I'm betting his puppet masters are pulling his strings. What ever the reason maybe, just maybe its a start to keeping families from being torn apart.

[Eyeball_Kid]

27. I'll go with that. It makes the most sense.

[Kolesar]

5. Congressmen got death threats when little Bush tried immigration reform

Threats were sent to gop congressmen at the behest of RW radio hosts.

[Orrex]

6. I believe that just a few short months ago...

Republicans and the Republican presidential candidate would have blasted this as an amnesty bill.


Hmm...

[cstanleytech]

9. Oh there is zero doubt about that actually as its exactly what they would all have done. nt

[DFW]

14. Yeah, but now they're not running for anything, and won't be for a year

So ICE will be called off, the Alabama strawberry farmers will get their Mexicans back, and they'll continue to vote reliably Republican. They'll just click their two ruby red slippers, whisper "there's no place like home," and it will be like the last two months never happened.

[yeoman6987]

21. They haven't heard it yet

Tomorrow trump supporters will not be happy.

[RelativelyJones]

11. His base will shit themselves.

[Dopers_Greed]

12. Big money donors want their cheap labor

I'll be surprised if Reichbart News goes along with this though

[Squinch]

15. This. They got what they always wanted and then realized that it would ruin them.

[DFW]

16. Kein Befehl wird verweigert

"No order will be disobeyed."

[BumRushDaShow]

33. THIS THIS AND THIS

"Somebody's" gotta pick the crops, cut up the chickens, and take care of their little children.

[NewJeffCT]

17. A lot of his base is going to be pissed

they want those black, brown and yellow people kept out, and anybody not white that is already here (legally or illegally) to be deported.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Economies run on grunt labor that do jobs others won't

These jobs have been filled by various groups in our history ...
slaves, women, children, German, Irish, Italian, Poles, Mexicans, Eastern Europeans ...
Last half of the 1800s, women and children filled the factories.

Maybe he figured out lawn mowing, dishwashing, construction jobs can't be filled
with Americans when unemployment, from Obama's economy, is at 4.5%.

Or that those being deported are also consumers. You want economic contraction,
reduce the population of consumers.

So dimwit has no choice but to steal Obama's ideas and programs. Be interesting to
see if his base has any principles or spine, or if Idolatry is their only thrill.

[TNLib]

24. I really hope so but I'm not holding my breath

I doubt President Bannon will allow it.

[wcast]

25. All he wants is to be loved, which is sad.

I've been wondering how Trump will react if there is a Democratic wave that takes both the House and the Senate. I could actually see him flipping 180 degrees as he has no real ideology and is led around by his nose. Of course, this predicated on the fact we are the same country in two years.

[SummerSnow]

26. Oh oh the supremacist wont like this. lol

[RoadhogRidesAgain]

28. Believe it when I see it

But if he does this it would be one of the few things that positively surprised me of him.

[dalton99a]

29. Don't believe it.

[Kolesar]

31. Fathead got his daughter to bait us on global warming

And then he appointed the worst people in the world for his cabinet.

[dalton99a]

32. Yep, that should have woken up people. The asshole is full of shit.

[Charles Bukowski]

30. I don't buy it.

He just wants cheers from the congregation. He'll go back to his usual despicable self by tomorrow.

[paleotn]

34. And the cheeto nation will go ape shit.

According to them, all undocumented people are breaking the law just being here, sucking off the welfare state, selling drugs and other thuggery. You don't turn that kind of conditioning off with just one speech.

If the deplorables stop loving cheeto, who will?

[kacekwl]

35. It would be nice if he did his mulling

before he started throwing people out , breaking up families . Think 1st douche.

[YOHABLO]

36. The Obama administration had already enacted 'a pathway..'

I don't get it.

[briv1016]

37. Well that ended quickly.