Trump Advises GOP: Quit Wasting Time On Immigration

President Donald Trump signaled an about-face Friday on immigration reform, calling on Congress to wait until after November’s elections to ride what he called a “red wave” of new Republican lawmakers.

“Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November”, Trump wrote. But according to Michael McCaul, a Republican lawmakers from Texas and a co-sponsor of the hard-line bill, the White House was not giving up on it.

“I did talk to the White House yesterday”.

Aboard Air Force One on Saturday en route to Las Vegas, Nevada, Trump lashed out at House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of NY, accusing them on Twitter of favoring illegal immigrants over American citizens.

An op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post by the long-time political pundit and conservative calls for voters to end the “carnage of Republican misrule” in Washington. “We can not allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections”, Trump wrote.

At issue is a Trump administration policy to prosecute as many people as possible who cross the border illegally. “Really good policy in that bill, but our objective is not just to have good policy in a bill, it’s to pass a bill and ultimately to get a bill on President Trump’s desk that he will sign”.

“Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world”, he added in another tweet.

Both bills would have addressed the separations but also included funding for the promised border wall and a reduction of legal migration.

The proposal, negotiated by moderate and conservative Republicans, would provide a citizenship path for young unauthorized immigrants and keep migrant families together when they are stopped at the border.

Democrats and other opponents of the administration’s policy say that court case is not the root of the problem, noting that separating families was the exception, not the rule, for most of the two decades since the Flores case was resolved.

Republican leaders plan to consider a bill created to bridge the gap their conservative and more moderate members, but votes twice have been postponed due to lack of support.

Goodlatte bill failed in the House, the compromsie bill won’t be voted on until tomorrow.

“I think it will tone down”, he said of the widespread outrage.

Even Speaker Paul D. Ryan told reporters Thursday he didn’t know if House Republicans could pass any immigration bill in response to a question that was about more than just the two bills the House was preparing to vote on.

Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.), the second-ranking Republican senator, said that he hoped the Senate would come up with a legislative solution, even though Trump moved to act unilaterally. “We don’t like to see families separated”, Trump said Wednesday, referring to his daughter Ivanka. The bill would have limited legal immigration levels while providing legal status for DACA recipients and authorizing $25 billion for a border wall.

“They’re not concerned with talking about Donald Trump as much as they are about talking about how people in their communities want their children to have job opportunities in the communities that they grew up in”, Clark said.