Rank-and-file lawmakers not feeling it on grand immigration deal
Story Date: 9/15/2017

 

Source: ROLL CALL, 9/14/17

President Donald Trump and congressional leaders see the most likely legislative path to replacing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as pairing it with border security. But rank-and-file members of both parties think that’s a bad idea.
 “We’re going to get ourselves in a quagmire if we allow there to be a linkage because of such disputes and debates here among the hardline immigration crew about what should be linked,” Vermont Democrat Rep. Peter Welch said, adding there were members for whom there could never be “enough security.”

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