OldLady
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Yes, in 2017 they did.BS The Dems never offered anything. They simply refused to respond to Trump's offer.No, in their first round the Democrats offered a few billion for the Wall, but Trump refused the offer because they wouldn't include omitting the immigration "lottery" and "chain migration." If he wanted the Wall, he should have taken it and not been greedy.In his 2018 Sotu address, the President offered to provide a path to citizenship not only for the DACA people but for another million more who came to the US illegally as minors if the Democrats would agree to pass funding for the fence, which they wanted in 2013, but the Dems refused to respond. The argument behind it was that if illegal immigration could be stemmed, laxer regulations for illegals who had been here for a long time would be possible, but as long as illegals continued to stream across the border in large numbers, it was incumbent upon the government to strictly enforce existing laws and deport as many as possible. The only response the Democrats gave was to oppose anything the President proposed.So the Dems had nothing in there about the DACA kids? Are you SURE it eliminated chain migration, etc.? Just asking.So you have no problem with Trump's immigration policy, which is just like the Democrats' immigration policy before Trump became President, so what are you complaining about?How has Trump managed to "enact" it without Congress passing it? I am pretty sure I would have heard about it.
I have nothing against merit based immigration policy if that is what our country needs. What I was pointing out with that post was that Trump's issue is NOT just with illegal immigrants. As you just pointed out.
It is a lie to say the Democrats don't presently support open borders, since they have opposed anything that might provide border security.
But on Friday afternoon, as the hours ticked away toward a government shutdown, Schumer went to the White House and told Trump he could have his wall. “The president picked a number for the wall, and I accepted it,” Schumer recalled in the midst of the shutdown. He had agreed to a significant sum of money for the wall—reported to be $20 billion, though the Democrat’s office will neither confirm nor deny that figure—in exchange for Trump’s support of permanent protections for the nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants covered under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The White House ultimately rejected the offer,
How Democrats Stopped Worrying and Learned to Accept Trump's Wall