Here's how Trump officials reportedly want to sweeten his border wall deal
The Senate is set to vote Thursday on two deals to end the 32-day shutdown, one proposed by President Trump over the weekend containing border wall funding and one levied by Democrats without it. But with both seemingly destined to fail, White House officials are considering adding another concession to Trump's proposal: green cards for DACA recipients, three sources tell Axios.
Trump's proposal, laid out in a Saturday speech, would grant a three-year extension to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But the version introduced by Senate Republicans on Monday also includes some big, previously unannounced changes to America's asylum process. It still contains Trump's unwavering demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, but doesn't include the Temporary Protected Status extension Trump mentioned Saturday.
That proposal is just a conglomeration of things Democrats strongly oppose, meaning there's a miniscule chance of it getting the 53 GOP and seven Democratic votes it needs to pass the Senate. So "as a possible way to break the congressional deadlock," Trump's advisers, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, have mentioned giving green cards to 700,000 DREAMers, Axios says. Apparently, Kushner described this as an effort to "go big," a Republican senator involved in immigration talks said. But the senator disagreed with Kushner's thinking, telling Axios it would mean "this whole coalition will fall over on the right" and cause Trump to "lose" his right-wing media supporters, including Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
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Meanwhile, another conservative calls the whole green card proposal "insanity," per Axios, so there's a good chance yet another immigration concession will end up down the drain. Read more at Axios.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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