Were going to bury it [DACA}, one #Trump administration official told a reporter-Trump sabatage!

This is plain cruelty to make more anxiety for the families.



Trump administration assault on bipartisan immigration plan ensured its demise

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-assault-on-bipartisan-immigration-plan-ensured-its-demise/2018/02/17/ad1661f4-133e-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.97efc00b12fd


By David Nakamura and Mike DeBonis February 17 at 6:05 PM Email the author

As much of the country was gripped Wednesday by horrific images from the mass shooting at a Florida high school, two dozen senior Trump administration officials worked frantically into the night to thwart what they considered a different national security threat.

The looming danger on the minds of the officials was a piece of legislation scheduled for a vote the next day in the Senate. It was designed to spare hundreds of thousands of young immigrants known as “dreamers” from deportation — but to the men and women huddled in a makeshift war room in a Department of Homeland Security facility, the measure would blow open U.S. borders to lawless intruders.

“We’re going to bury it,” one senior administration official told a reporter about 10:30 that evening.

The assault was relentless — a flurry of attacks on the bill from DHS officials and the Justice Department, and a veto threat from the White House — and hours later, the measure died on the Senate floor.

The Trump administration’s extraordinary 11th-hour strategy to sabotage the bill showed how, after weeks of intense bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill, it was the White House that emerged as a key obstacle preventing a deal to help the dreamers.



The episode reflected President Trump’s inability — or lack of desire — to cut a deal with his adversaries even when doing so could have yielded a signature domestic policy achievement and delivered the U.S.-Mexico border wall he repeatedly promised during the campaign................................




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-assault-on-bipartisan-immigration-plan-ensured-its-demise/2018/02/17/ad1661f4-133e-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.97efc00b12fd

Participants in an immigration rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status programs Dec. 6, 2017, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)