https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/politics/gop-daca-draft/index.htmlhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/14/gop-immigration-text-releasted/703064002/latest immigration "compromise"
the democrats get:
- +++ permanent status for 1.8 million DACA enrollees with one-time limit slots
- ++++ amnesty (pathway to citizenship) for DACA enrollees
- ++++ amnesty (pathway to citizenship) for other illegal aliens
- ++++ green card application for parents of DACA enrollees (ie DAPA)
- ++ rule against child separation at the border
the republicans gets:
- + end of the diversity via lottery
- ++ $25 billion for wall funding
- + removes 3 week limit on detaining families with children when kept together
- + lengthens detention of illegal aliens facing trial
- + allows citizens to sue cities for crimes committed by illegal aliens they failed to detain
- + removes "married children of United States citizens and siblings of adult citizens." from family-based visas
Looks to me like an absurdly one-sided bargain. IE, its halfway between the republicans who support DACA and the democrats who support DACA, and far removed from the republicans who oppose DACA.
I mean, its being presented as 'too hard-line' by sites like the NYT, but this is giveway to democrats as written, and I say that as someone who would rather see a DACA solution.
The fact is, the two big sticking points for the two sides are
Amnesty and
Merit-based Immigration. If a bill only presents one of these and not the other, it can't truly be a compromise. This bill's only concession to merit-based immigration is to add it as a special scrutiny for amnesty applications (lol) and to remove a couple categories of family visas. It does
not overhaul US immigration to be merit-based like Trump and his supporters want. Everything else- the wall, schumer visas, suing cities- these are peanuts. The kinds of sweeteners you add to a deal to help politicians sell it to their constituents, not the meat of the package that is being haggled.
If President Trump lends his support to this bill, it will show he's actually much further to the left than his supporters
another important point you didnt mention: the bill does NOT include e-verify. probably because the "chamber of commerce" type of republicans passionately oppose e-verify.
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