Robert Donachie, DCNF
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that DREAMers should “storm Capitol Hill” if they are worried about losing legal protections under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“They should storm Capitol Hill and protest there. That’s the place that’s held up the discussion. Democrats are the one that shut this discussion down by forcing a government shutdown, by being unwilling to fund the government. We lost four days over this process of the conversation that should have been focused on immigration reform fighting over this CR if they had been part of the solution instead of part of the problem,” Sanders said Monday at the White House press briefing.
“We would have already been further down the road in our negotiations on that package. Hopefully we won’t have problems like that in the future,” Sanders said.
The majority of Senate Democrats agreed Monday afternoon to a bill that keeps the government funded through Feb. 8 and provides six years of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Senate Democrats shut down the government over the weekend in an effort to get Republican leadership to cave and include legal protections for DREAMers and members of their families into the continuing resolution.
The House and Senate must come to an agreement on the bill and then the White House Office of Management and Budget has to look over the final proposal before it can make its way to President Donald Trump’s desk for approval.
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