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Immigration reform seems impossible now ... and forever? Trump, who has made hard-line immigration policy the cornerstone of his administration. The raw dispute over immigration is also one he has found to be politically beneficial and something he doesn’t seem in a hurry to resolve.
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Costa Rica asume la Presidencia del Consejo Permanente de la OEA
Comprehensive immigration reform for years has been a distant goal that only seems to get farther out of reach. The current political climate gives little hope that it will ever move out of pipe-dream status. Congress this past week predictably failed to pass a sweeping immigration bill amid the backdrop of continued strife over some 2,000 immigrant children
La Representante Permanente de Costa Rica, Rita Hernández Bolaños, asumió hoy la presidencia del Consejo Permanente de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (O EA)
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separated from their parents by the U.S. government.
Not even his own party leaders can figure out how to negotiate with him. On June 22, Trump seemed to put the kibosh on their efforts to pass a bill, taking to Twitter to say Republicans should “stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November.”
The shrillness of the debate and increasing polarization not only between the Republican and Democratic parities but within them suggest there’s no exit from this dead end anywhere in sight.
Then he reversed himself, tweeting in capital letters on Wednesday that “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL. . .”, even though he predicted it would be blocked by Democrats in the Senate.
And that’s not even factoring in the impossible-to-follow zig-zags of President Donald
It didn’t get that far, of course. The so-called compromise bill
among Republicans went down in flames, with nearly half of the GOP members opposed. For context on how difficult it is to find real compromise, the more hard-line bill brought up by conservative Republicans the previous week received more votes. Democrats didn’t back either and most don’t seem in a compromising mood, at least on Republican terms. In addition to creating a pathway to citizenship for some young immigrants, the bill defeated Wednesday sought to allocate $25 billion for Trump’s proposed border wall, reduce family-based immigration and prevent federal authorities from taking migrant children from parents who were seized crossing into the country illegally. There’s a lot of tough rhetoric that makes the road to a middle ground — if there is one — tough to find. Calls for a path to citizenship for people here
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