Immigration Plan
Republicans produced a new immigration bill and said it had the President’s support.
“Our proposal is supported by the President, who’s come a long way to reach a compromise. This is the only Senate proposal that has any chance of passing the House and being signed into law,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The GOP claimed the bill reflected what Trump wanted done. He gave the immigration deal in exchange for border security. Trump would receive the funds needed for his border wall.
“It sounds like Senator McConnell’s just going to pull up a shell bill and let people have at it. …It ought to be pretty fascinating,” said Sen. John Cornyn
“Face it, for years we haven’t started a process where we don’t know where it’s going. …So it is significant that he’s willing to actually put a shell, a neutral shell, on the floor and have the process work itself out,” Sen. Jeff Flake said.
Democrats are pushing and hope the bill would get the support it needed to become a reality, but until it happened nothing was certain.
“I think we’re getting pretty close on coming up with a proposal that may or may not be offered next week,” Sen. Susan Collins said. “There will probably be more than one [amendment offered] but it’s too early to tell right now.”
