Trump to offer temporary protections for undocumented ‘dreamers’ in exchange for $5.7 billion for border wall, GOP officials say
President Trump speaks about American missile defense doctrine on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at the Pentagon. (Evan Vucci/AP)
President
Trump is planning to make a new offer Saturday to Democrats aimed at
ending the 29-day partial government shutdown that would extend
deportation protections for some immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion
in border wall funding, according to Republican officials.
The
president’s proposal, which he is expected to announce at the White
House at 4 p.m., is designed to ramp up pressure on Democrats by
offering a reprieve on his attempts to end Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) and temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants
from some Latin American and African nations.
Under
the new proposal, the administration would allow those programs to
continue — addressing a key concern of Democrats and some moderate
Republicans.
It’s not clear, however, whether
the offer would be enough to break an impasse that has resulted in
800,000 federal workers to be furloughed and numerous government
agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to operate at
minimal staffing levels.
The shutdown is now the longest in U.S. government history.
The
two officials described the proposal on condition of anonymity to
freely discuss the offer, with the caveat that planning has remained
fluid and nothing is firm until Trump’s announcement.
President Trump said Jan. 19, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is 'being controlled by the radical left' and that 'everybody knows that walls work.'
Democrats have been under pressure
from immigrant rights organizations not to give Trump funding for a
wall. And Trump’s offer would not provide a path to permanent legal
status — or citizenship — that many Democrats have sought in any
immigration deal that would dramatically ramp up border security
measures.
Democrats have not been consulted on
this plan and have rejected similar overtures in the past, according to a
senior Democratic congressional aide.
Trump
also could face blowback from conservatives, including prominent
commentators, who have opposed any attempts to extend deportation
protections from undocumented immigrants.
Axios first reported the details of Trump’s proposal.
Trump
had indicated for weeks that he would not entertain an extension of
DACA, which began in 2012 under President Obama and has offered
renewable work permits to immigrants, known as “Dreamers,” who entered
the country illegally as children. Trump had said he was hoping the
Supreme Court would hear an appeal to a lower court’s injunction on his
attempt to end DACA and, if the high court ruled in his favor, that
ending the program would give him more leverage in talks with Democrats
over the future of the Dreamers.
But the
Supreme Court signaled Friday that it might not take the case. That
would mean that Trump would remain unable to end DACA, which covers
about 700,000 immigrants, and some Dreamer groups have called on
Democrats not to cut a deal for the wall.
On
TPS, Trump has declared an end to a program that has offered hundreds
of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan
the right to remain in the United States after they were uprooted from
their home countries during national disasters and other emergencies.
But Trump’s move also has been enjoined by federal courts.
Trump
told reporters at the White House on Saturday morning that he will make
an “important statement” that afternoon, and continued to point to a
new caravan of Central American migrants crossing into Mexico from
Guatemala that was the subject of segments this week on “Fox & Friends” as one reason for the wall.
“If we had a wall, we wouldn’t have a problem. But we don’t, we have too many open areas,” he said.
Aides
to the top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — said
late Friday that they had received no new offer from the White House.
The
ongoing shutdown of some 25 percent of the federal government was
triggered by Trump’s demands for $5.7 billion to build more than 200
miles of new wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Pelosi calls the wall
“immoral,” and Democrats are refusing to offer more than $1.3 billion to
extend existing funding levels for border barriers and fences.
Democrats also frequently point out that Trump long claimed Mexico would
pay for the wall.
Absent negotiations, the
impasse has devolved into bickering between Trump and Pelosi, offering
little comfort to the 800,000 federal workers who have gone without pay
since Dec. 22 and have been forced to rely on food banks or other jobs.
The
fight escalated on Saturday, with Trump telling reporters he hopes
Pelosi can “come along and realize . . . that walls work.” Trump was
asked if the shutdown had become too personal between himself and
Pelosi.
“It’s not personal for me,” he said. “She’s being controlled by the radical left, which is a problem.”
A spokesman for Pelosi did not immediately return a response for comment.
Sen.
Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Saturday that Democrats have shown repeatedly in
the past that they’re willing to provide border security funding — but
stressed that President Trump must first agree to reopen the government
before such discussions can resume.
“Reopen
government and we’ve shown you by our past actions and past votes that
we’re willing to have a discussion,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Kaine,
the Democratic Party’s 2016 vice-presidential candidate, said the
dollar amount Trump is requesting to build a wall isn’t the problem —
it’s how to best use the funding.
“The dollar
amount has not been the challenge, the issue is do you use the money in
the right way or the wrong way, and I think what our goal is we don’t
want to use the money the wrong way,” said the senator.
A
proxy battle — a political clash like few others — emerged over the
past week between the leaders of two of the nation’s three branches of
government as they leveraged the powers of their offices against one
another, all the while trying to shape public sentiment.
Pelosi
suggested this past week that Trump reschedule his Jan. 29 State of the
Union address on Capitol Hill due to security concerns stemming from
the nearly month-long partial government shutdown. He retaliated with a
last-minute cancellation of her trip with other House members to
Afghanistan using a military aircraft.
On
Friday Pelosi accused Trump of putting herself and fellow lawmakers in
danger by publicizing their plans to travel to Afghanistan, forcing them
to abandon the trip. Pelosi said the State Department had determined
that the trip, even using commercial aircraft, could no longer be made
without endangering the safety of lawmakers, as well as of troops and
support personnel due to the president’s actions.
“You
never give advance notice of going into a battle area — you just never
do it,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters at the Capitol. “Perhaps the
president’s inexperience didn’t have him understand that protocol. The
people around him, though, should have known that, because that’s very
dangerous.”
The White House has forcefully denied Pelosi’s claims.
Meanwhile,
the furloughed workers and those forced to work without pay will soon
miss another paycheck unless the shutdown is somehow resolved, a fact
that White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday made it
imperative for Pelosi to stay in the country this weekend.
“That’s
one of the key reasons that the president did not want Speaker Pelosi
to leave the country, is because if she did it would all but guarantee
the fact that negotiations couldn’t take place over the weekend,”
Sanders told reporters at the White House.
But
Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, said the White House had not sought
to schedule negotiations with the speaker for this weekend.
The
impacts from the shutdown have spiraled in various directions despite
efforts by the administration to limit them by calling workers at
agencies including the IRS and State Department back to work, in most
cases without pay.
Federal Reserve Bank of New
York President John Williams on Friday said the shutdown had created
“head winds” to economic growth, and a key measurement of consumer
confidence — released by the University of Michigan — has fallen to its
lowest level of Trump’s presidency.
The
administration moved forward Friday with a broader crackdown on
congressional travel: Acting White House Budget Director Russell T.
Vought said in a memo,
“Under no circumstances during a government shutdown will any
government owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft support any
congressional delegation, without the express written approval of the
White House Chief of Staff.”
The White House
and Democrats are in agreement on the need for border security generally
and even on some specifics of what that would entail — just not on the
wall.
Next week the House will take up another
batch of spending bills aimed at reopening the government without
funding the wall that will include some spending directed to the border.
One bill will include $563 million for immigration judges, the same
figure Trump has requested; another will include $524 million to expand
facilities at ports of entry along the border.
Paige Winfield Cunningham, Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Paul Kane, and Damian Paletta contributed to this report.
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