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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:16 PM Jun 2018

Urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration effort

Reuters | about 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, which he hopes will boost the party’s majority in Congress.

Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their migrant parents at the US border with Mexico, tried to refocus the immigration debate on Congress in a series of early morning posts on Twitter.

Despite Republican control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the party’s slim 51-49 majority in the latter chamber makes some Democratic support necessary to pass most legislation. Trump has often chafed at this, which also leaves his party vulnerable to dissent by just one or two Republican senators.

“Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world,” Trump said on Twitter ...

http://ewn.co.za/2018/06/22/trump-urges-republican-lawmakers-to-drop-immigration-effort

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Urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration effort (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2018 OP

He wants to make it an issue in November. bearsfootball516 Jun 2018 #1

exactly right AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #4

Tells House GOP: Don't waste time on immigration struggle4progress Jun 2018 #2

Says GOP should 'stop wasting their time on immigration' struggle4progress Jun 2018 #3

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)

1. He wants to make it an issue in November.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:17 PM

Jun 2018

Polls show the highest rated issue for Republican voters is immigration. He wants to attack it nonstop this fall.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)

4. exactly right

Reply to bearsfootball516 (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:30 PM

Jun 2018

there is nothing else he’s got because it appeara the economy might be worsening by nov

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)

2. Tells House GOP: Don't waste time on immigration

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:20 PM

Jun 2018

By ALAN FRAM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press JUNE 22, 2018 — 1:08PM

... A little more than four months before the congressional elections, Trump also took a new shot at Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of spreading "phony stories of sadness and grief" about young immigrants separated from parents by his "zero tolerance" policy on illegal border crossings.

Trump's tweet .. was the latest example of his abrupt reversals on issues ... Just Tuesday, he met privately with GOP lawmakers and told them he supported the immigration legislation ...

http://www.startribune.com/gop-struggles-to-salvage-immigration-bill-postpones-vote/486234691/

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)

3. Says GOP should 'stop wasting their time on immigration'

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:22 PM

Jun 2018

By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 12:08 PM ET, Fri June 22, 2018

... The President was not required to sign anything to change the administration's practice that elicited outrage. He could have reversed the practice of splitting children from their parents with a phone call. As it stands, the hastily written order is mired in confusion, with little clarity on how families will be reunited.

Trump mentioned that act only in passing on Thursday, returning instead to his misleading and sharp rhetoric blaming political opponents for what he claimed were the weakest immigration laws in the world ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/trump-immigration-democrats/index.html

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