‘As much of the country was gripped Wednesday by horrific images from the mass shooting at a Florida high school, two dozen senior Trump administration officials worked frantically into the night to thwart what they considered a different national security threat.
The looming danger on the minds of the officials was a piece of legislation scheduled for a vote the next day in the Senate. It was designed to spare hundreds of thousands of young immigrants known as “dreamers” from deportation — but to the men and women huddled in a makeshift war room in a Department of Homeland Security facility, the measure would blow open U.S. borders to lawless intruders.
“We’re going to bury it,” one senior administration official told a reporter about 10:30 that evening.
The assault was relentless — a flurry of attacks on the bill from DHS officials and the Justice Department, and a veto threat from the White House — and hours later, the measure died on the Senate floor.
The Trump administration’s extraordinary 11th-hour strategy to sabotage the bill showed how, after weeks of intense bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill, it was the White House that emerged as a key obstacle preventing a deal to help the dreamers.
The episode reflected President Trump’s inability — or lack of desire — to cut a deal with his adversaries even when doing so could have yielded a signature domestic policy achievement and delivered the U.S.-Mexico border wall he repeatedly promised during the campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.d9633187f569
Needless to say, most on the right couldn’t care less about DACA participants.
Indeed, the prospect of thousands of young men and women who lost their legal immigration status through no fault of their own being deported to countries that are alien to them is very appealing to conservatives, sending a clear message to the world that immigrants from Latin America and Africa are unwelcome, even if they seek to come to the United States legally.
The reprehensible cruelty common to most on the right who would support the deportation of DACA participants should come as a surprise to no one.
And that Trump would attack the solution to a problem he alone created is further proof that he is unfit to be president.
The looming danger on the minds of the officials was a piece of legislation scheduled for a vote the next day in the Senate. It was designed to spare hundreds of thousands of young immigrants known as “dreamers” from deportation — but to the men and women huddled in a makeshift war room in a Department of Homeland Security facility, the measure would blow open U.S. borders to lawless intruders.
“We’re going to bury it,” one senior administration official told a reporter about 10:30 that evening.
The assault was relentless — a flurry of attacks on the bill from DHS officials and the Justice Department, and a veto threat from the White House — and hours later, the measure died on the Senate floor.
The Trump administration’s extraordinary 11th-hour strategy to sabotage the bill showed how, after weeks of intense bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill, it was the White House that emerged as a key obstacle preventing a deal to help the dreamers.
The episode reflected President Trump’s inability — or lack of desire — to cut a deal with his adversaries even when doing so could have yielded a signature domestic policy achievement and delivered the U.S.-Mexico border wall he repeatedly promised during the campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.d9633187f569
Needless to say, most on the right couldn’t care less about DACA participants.
Indeed, the prospect of thousands of young men and women who lost their legal immigration status through no fault of their own being deported to countries that are alien to them is very appealing to conservatives, sending a clear message to the world that immigrants from Latin America and Africa are unwelcome, even if they seek to come to the United States legally.
The reprehensible cruelty common to most on the right who would support the deportation of DACA participants should come as a surprise to no one.
And that Trump would attack the solution to a problem he alone created is further proof that he is unfit to be president.
