Bad Deal
The White House said the deal wasn’t a good one for the President and went against his agenda.
“Once we saw what was going on in the meeting a few days earlier, we were freaked out,” said Mark Krikorian,. Trump, he said, “has hawkish instincts on immigration, but they aren’t well-developed, and he hasn’t ever been through these kind of legislative fights.”
Mark Krikorian runs the Center for Immigration Studies and wasn’t the only one to who felt that way.
Mark Meadows said “it wasn’t a serious proposal. It was not viewed as a serious proposal because it did so little to address the immigration issues that the President has been vocal about.”
He also said “it was, if I had to put it in a 1-to-10 range, with 10 being the most conservative and 1 being the most liberal, I would give it a 2.5.”
“Based on what they proposed originally, Durbin and Graham are running a marathon, and they’re only in Mile 2,” Meadows said.
Graham gave comments regarding the deal and what he hoped to see happen.
“I expect that we’ll get more Republican support for the proposal because it’s really the only game in town. I expect there will be more negotiations, we didn’t write the Bible,” Graham said.
“We wrote a proposal that over time we can make it better,” he added.
