DACA Lives
“I’ll take all the heat you want,” Trump said. “But you are not that far away from comprehensive immigration reform.”
Democrats lawmakers wanted a deal. This meeting may have given them just that.
“I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with,” Trump said.
“I think a clean DACA bill, to me, is a DACA bill, but we take care of the 800,000 people,” Trump said. “But I think, to me, a clean bill is a bill of DACA, we take care of them, and we also take care of security.”
All of this seemed to suggest DACA was safe but it still needed to be made official.
“The sense of urgency, the commitment to DACA, the fact that the President said to me privately as well as publicly, ‘I want to get this done,’ I’m going to take him as his word,” Dick Durbin said.
Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democratic leader wanted the deal to go through.
“There are scores of Republicans who have shifted their position to follow the President,” said Rep. Steve King.
He said “I don’t want to promise the result will be the same. This is more momentum than I have ever seen.”
Durbin comments referred to a bipartisan immigration effort in 2013. The Dreamers have high hopes; time will tell if Democrats could pull it off.
