White House Outlines DACA Plan For Trump

Shane Burrell | Editor

President Trump has told lawmakers he would sign any immigration bill Congress creates after denying deal proposed by six senators.

The immigration memo concerns the protected individuals under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The one-page memo sent to congressional Republicans Thursday supports a 10- to 12-year path of citizenship for approximately 700,000 DACA recipients. The memo also mentions the concerns for the “DACA-eligible illegal immigrants” could bring the estimated 700,000 individuals to 1.8 million.

The White House memo also mentions that officials would like to see an immigration measure that would allocate $25 billion for manufacturing a border wall stating, “takes a combination of physical infrastructure, technology, personnel, [and] resources.”

The memo is stating that despite Trump’s declaration of building a border wall from coast to coast, as was mentioned in his campaign, the border allocations will not extend from coast to coast.

A $25 billion budget to manufacture a wall is not the issue the memo mentions but it also mentions the change of the lottery system of immigration policy, as well as prioritizing the immigration system to family members, “to spouses and minor children only.”

Although the memo would suggest some relief of stress from the current DACA recipients Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democrat of New Mexico and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has other thoughts, “the White House is using Dreamers to mask their underlying xenophobic, isolationist, and un-American policies, which will harm millions of immigrants living in the United States and millions of others who want to legally immigrate and contribute to our country.

Democrat Luis Gutierrez of Illinois tweeted, “$25 billion as ransom for Dreamers with cuts to legal immigration and increases to deportations doesn’t pass the laugh test.”

While in California, Democrat Representative Nancy Pelosi tweeted the proposal is a part of, “an unmistakable campaign to make America white again.”

The clear details of the memo can be seen on this link.

With all of the details from the White House trying to illustrate an immigration bill that would serve the people of the United States in the best way possible, Democrats and Republicans are awaiting anxiously for the eventual bill.