'Amnesty' hint angers right, fails to draw Democrats

Jon Swaine in New York
Sun 20 Jan 2019 16.18 EST

... In a remark that angered Republicans while not being taken seriously by Democrats, Trump suggested legal status could be given to millions of undocumented people as part of a future grand bargain on American immigration law ...

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, described Trump’s plan as a “compilation of several previously rejected initiatives” that would not provide lasting security for dreamers and other groups.

“What is original in the president’s proposal is not good,” she said. “What is good in the proposal is not original” ...

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a Democrat, said on Sunday that the chaotic shutdown would only be repeated on future policy disputes if his party caved to Trump’s demands on wall funding before a reopening of the government ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/20/government-shutdown-donald-trump-amnesty-migrants