Democrats Reportedly Preparing to Get Played Over the Shutdown
President Trump and Republican congressional leaders have rejected multiple offers from Democrats to fund Trump’s border wall in exchange for legislation on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which the Trump administration abruptly ended in September.
In the months since the president ended those protections for immigrants brought to the country as children, there have been many, many opportunities for Congress to come together to recreate them through legislative action. They did not. Why? Because Republican leadership and the Trump White House do not want to do that—certainly not without extracting a startlingly xenophobic blow against legal immigration in exchange.