U.S. Senate rejects immigration bills, leaving Dreamers in limbo

Illegally here, is illegally here.

The wall is stupid.

A guest worker program for the specific industries where it is needed, so those workers can return to their families in their home countries would go a long way towards fixing the illegal worker problems. They want the economic help, but really don't want to move their families. It is just the current risks of crossing the border illegally that makes leaving too difficult to consider.

Holding the employers accountable with a $500K fine for each illegal worker in their employ (or by the employ of any contractor) would make it too painful to risk.

Amend the US Constitution to mandate at least 1 parent be legally in the USA for citizenship by birthplace to work. As it has stood since the beginning, it is an incentive for illegal immigrants to have children here. That incentive needs to be stopped.

Deport the parents, build the wall, end chain migration, and debt serious about border security and deporting visa oversays. Every other country does it - so should the US.

Make no mistake about it. The calculus of Trump and the GOP is to NOT solve the immigration problem. It is a hot-button topic that they will use throughout the mid-terms as cannon fodder against the Democrats.

They are a despicable bunch.

President Trump offered a generous deal. The Uniparty shot themselves in the foot yet again.

March 5th, which will be known as Cinco De Adios, cannot come soon enough. . . .

'This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree'

Friedrich Trump, 1905 on being deported from Bavaria.

President Trump has successfully unmasked the Democrats and the RINOs on this issue.

Bravo, Mr. President. Well played.

Watch for the next step to be employing the "Nuclear Option": A total Republican Bill with everything they want including:

very restrictive merit based immigration;

the Wall;

the end of chain migration, the green card lottery system and making E-verify the law of the land

a very modified DACA (a few can stay sans parents who originally came here illegally), but citizenship for them won't happen for the next 12-25 years and only if they meet certain requirements like registering with and being monitored by ICE (including random unannounced zero policy drug tests) as "provisional residents" and not running afoul of any other U.S. laws during their probation period; to do that would earn them an automatic one-way ticket out of our country

All passed with 51 votes in the Senate

MAGA

Make no mistake about it. The calculus of Trump and the GOP is to NOT solve the immigration problem.

No, they want to solve the problem, Trump was for giving 800K DACA recipients legalization, the Dems said, No and then he went up to almost 2 million, let me repeat that 2 MILLION and the Dems still said, NO.

That wasn't Trump, the President went over and all out to appease the slimy Dems angered his base (me included) in order to make a deal, that is care and the Dems refused and that's on them and now the Dems screwed them for a second time. Time is running out, they need to get their passports in order and brush up on their Spanish.

As long as the Dems oppose ending chain migration, the visa lottery program and fund the wall, DACA ain't gonna happen, never. So the ball is in the Dems court, if they care, they will make the deal, if they don't, then you know it was all talk, the wall can wait, but the DACA kids.....not much time.

It is a hot-button topic that they will use throughout the mid-terms as cannon fodder against the Democrats.

And the Dems will do the same to the GOP.

They are a despicable bunch.

Democrats, I agree!

now the Dems screwed them for a second time

Yes, because it was Dems that ended DACA.

But Trump slammed the bipartisan measure as "a total catastrophe" and backed a Republican plan that garnered only 39 votes, the fewest of all four plans. That led Democrats to complain the president's uncompromising approach was sinking bipartisan efforts in Congress.

"This vote is proof that President Trump’s plan will never become law. If he would stop torpedoing bipartisan efforts, a good bill would pass,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said.

.....The White House pushed Trump's preferred bill, introduced by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, but 14 Senate Republicans voted against Trump’s plan. 

LOL. These so-called dreamers were once again fooled by the Democrats. Give us your vote, give us your campaign money, and let us sell you another fairy tale next election. Thanks for letting us give you the business.

It's also amusing that the lame stream media chooses to call Grassley's bill, the "Trump plan". According to the Senate's rules, a President doesn't introduce bills in the Senate. But why let facts get in the way of the usual, politically-biased, news story.

Tommy Jones - Yes, because it was Dems that ended DACA.

They just did. The Democrats will do (and say) anything except work with the Republicans. Good government is based on the ability to compromise. And the Democrats have proven that they won't compromise with Republicans. Such is life. Better luck next election, dreamers.

Maybe Pelosi should filibuster the U.S. House again? Ignore the fact that the House's rules doesn't allow any of them to filibuster, that Pelosi is a scary ol' bird. Plus it gave her fellow Congressmen a chance to leave the floor, get some actual work done, or go to lunch. It was a win-win all around. Unless you're a dreamer who still thinks the Democrats are going to help them, of course.