It'll be expensive and won't stop immigration.

After a certain number of days in detention, by case law, the children must be separated.

The alternative is additional family detention centers, something not funded since at least 2014; or "catch and release". While most of those undocumented scheduled for hearings appear for their hearings (the percentage is in the high 80s or low 90s, I forget the number) this deceives as much as it informs: Many of those who appear need to appear multiple times, while each non-appearance is a separate person or family. It also presupposes that each person released has a set court date, as opposed to a date with some counselor, attorney, etc., prior to the actual setting of the court day.

If Democrats go with it, they get the wall. If not, Trump and Republicans go into midterms yelling that they offered a compromise that included DACA and preventing separation of parents from child, and Democrats turned it down.

and that is to make the Dems look bad before November. I really don't know if they (the Repugs) want this to pass. The Dems should fool them and vote for this. I don't think that much of a Wall could be built before Nov. If the Blue Wave is real and we take back the House and maybe the Senate - the Dems could reverse this vote on the Wall.

So we wouldn't be able to just reverse the vote on this wall. he would just veto it.

We need to Reject this bill.

Vote for it and then strip the wall funding out when we have taken back Congress.

Call their bluff

I want it in the legislation that no social programs will be cut to pay for the wall. It will be paid by increasing taxes on those that can afford it...or corporations/groups can sponsor sections of it. And gaps in the wall will not be preferentially given to conservative ranchers, oil and natural research extractors, golf course owners, Republican donors, etc.

Even then, the wall will do absolutely nothing but waste money, make some contractors richer, pollute the landscape, and do environmental damage. Insane. Extortion.

waste billions of tax dollars since the day Trump extracted it from his anal sphincter. The GOP 's linking it to DACA is just more proof of their craven inhumanity.

The DACA protections have to be renewed and are subject to the vagaries of any racist a**hole that can get themselves elected to Congress. These people deserve citizenship...now.

The child detention issue is one entirely of their own making. As sad as it is, they need to to own this.

No matter...this isn't even going to make it out of the House.

This is just an attempt to shed responsibility before they go away for the holiday.

for the WALL.

THAT, people, is why they adapted this "rip the kids from parents" tactic. PURE CRUELTY. And their evil plan was to tell Democrats and the American people this:

"Well if you want the cruel family separation to end -- YOU HAVE TO AGREE TO PAY FOR THE WALL"

The Republicans are LITERALLY using these kids as BARGAINING CHIPS to force the American taxpayers to pay for the goddamned US/Mexico wall.

Know who pointed that out to me? My 90-year old Mom. That woman is NO DUMMY. She knows this evil bastards backwards and forwards.

MOM was RIGHT.

The issue is that these bills punish the dreamers. No citizenship? But it's ok to give more worker visas with a pathway to citizenship to people who have not contributed to our society yet and have not been vetted as much as dreamers who have had to undergo FBI/DHS background checks every two years.

This bill proposal is as bad as I thought it would be.

Look, it's easy to say that nothing but citizenship for DACA recepients will be allowed, or no funding of any kind for a wall, but unless there is some type of compromise with Republican's, nothing will be passed.

What compromises are Pelosi & Schumer willing to accept to stop the deportations of the dreamers?

he said the the two parties will have to compromise to get enough votes to get anything passed. The Democrats want protection for the Dreamers, the Republicans want the wall.

They are holding children hostage to try and get the wall. How about they just outlaw it because it is the right thing to do.

Or better yet I would 100% support a bill that authorizes the building of the wall AS SOON AS drumpf obtains the funding from Mexico. Hell, if he can get $1 from the Mexican government I will support it! Good luck dotard!!!

Bastard.