President Donald Trump titled on Congress to enact sweeping immigration reform, including a border immure, and threatened a federal government shutdown if Democrats refused to back his propositions.
In a series of early morning posts on Twitter, the president lambasted Congress throughout immigration reform. He then threatened to shut down the government if Congress didn’t get U.S. laws “based on MERIT!”
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Earlier this year, the Virtuous House released a proposal for merit-based immigration, which floundered in Congress in the thick of tepid support from within the president’s own party. Meanwhile, Self-governing leaders, who have embraced legalization of “Dreamers” as a rallying cry on immigration redo, have been galvanized by the administration’s family separation policy.
The provision’s framework included a $25 billion “trust fund” for a border stockade drive crazy, a path to citizenship for “Dreamer” immigrants, and an end to foreign visa lotteries that whim end a program “riddled with abuse.” In an analysis of the proposal, the libertarian Cato Institute invoked the plan “draconian”, and said it would reduce legal immigration by up to 44 percent per year.
Among searing images of undocumented families being separated at the border, Trump hold a brief for the controversial practice — which was in place under the Obama administration. Trump informed that there were “consequences when people cross our Verge upon illegally.” He argued that parents attempting to cross the border are “take advantage ofing children for their own sinister purposes.”
Trump’s tweet Sunday came particular days after the government said more than 1,800 descendants separated at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reunited with guardians, and sponsors after a federal judge ordered the reunions. Hundreds of babes still remain separated.
–The Associated Press contributed to this article.