Mr Trump asked, after being presented with a proposal to restore protections for immigrants from those countries as part of a
bipartisan immigration deal.
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The specific immigration issue on the mind of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, when he led the crusade for the government shutdown, was the lack of a
comprehensive immigration deal that included provisions for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers in the Oval Office today when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a
bipartisan immigration deal, reportedly asking: «Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?»
In a hearing Tuesday, Graham said Trump expressed openness to
an immigration deal, only to reject it hours later.
Yet another attempt at
an immigration deal between lawmakers and the Trump administration floundered over the weekend as lawmakers rushed to cobble together a $ 1.3 trillion spending deal ahead of Friday's government shutdown deadline.
Trump's incendiary words about immigration have dampened the prospects that a broad spending and
immigration deal can be reached by the end of the week, raising the possibility of a government shutdown with unknown political consequences for lawmakers in both parties.
The House approved a stopgap spending bill last night to keep the government open past today, but Senate Democrats — angered by President Trump's vulgar aspersions and a lack of progress on a broader budget and
immigration deal — appeared ready to block the measure.
Nevertheless, the Dreamers» leading longtime advocate in the Senate, Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, said he was confident that senators can strike
an immigration deal.
She'd hoped to hold out longer for
an immigration deal.
The row broke out after lawmakers from both parties visited the president on Thursday to work on a proposal for a bipartisan
immigration deal.
Beginning with a headline that asks, «The Making of
an Immigration Deal?»
In practice, this may mean that each individual member state would have to barter
an immigration deal with the UK to guarantee its citizens» rights.
All told, the speech was a mix of style — rousing the base, hitting the right anecdotes — and a bit of substance around actual policy proposals like
the immigration deal.
The appearance is the president's most high profile public speaking moment of the year and Trump was expected to touch on some of the issues of the moment, including funding for a border wall, infrastructure and
an immigration deal.