Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Democrats Seeking End to Immigration Enforcement, GOP Conceding on Wall
In negotiations on Capitol Hill, Democrats have sought forcefully for a plan that not only decreases total detention space for federal immigration officials to house border crossers and illegal aliens, but the left-wing caucus is also seeking to phase out all immigration detention by the next fiscal year.
The Democrat plan attempts to gut the number of detention beds for border crossers that federal immigration officials would have readily available to ensure illegal aliens are not released into the interior of the U.S.
Democrats are looking to only fund about 16,500 detention beds, far fewer than the roughly 40,000 to 42,000 beds that are currently available to keep border crossers in detention and a lot less than the 52,000 beds that President Trump has requested Congress fund.
While Democrats seek an end to immigration detention — resulting in a mass release of all illegal aliens arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border — Republican lawmakers are unwilling to demand the border wall be funded to the sum of about $5 billion – what the president originally requested.
Instead, Republicans have conceded on wall funding, accepting anywhere between $1.3 to $2 billion for total border security. As Breitbart News reported, Trump has indicated...
President Trump: ‘Come And Take It’
“We want to build our roads, and highways, and bridges, and dams,” President Trump stated.
“America will never be a socialist country.”
President Trump cited the great American rallying cry “Come and Take It” from the Battle of Gonzales, and remembered the Alamo. President Trump definitely supports the Second Amendment.
“We’ve made our stand, and we’ve made it together. This is a big group of millions and millions of people who have come together like never before in our history. This has never happened before,” President Trump said.
“We are one united movement, one united people, and one United States of America.
Trump Approval Hits 52% – One of the Highest in His Presidency
There have only been a few other moments in the history of his presidency where his approval rating has exceeded this number, as can be seen here.
The last time that Trump earned a 52 percent approval rating from Rasmussen was in March 2017.
Thegatewaypundit.com reports: Barack Obama’s approval rating was at 50% at a similar point in his presidency.
This is also despite national mainstream media reporting negatively on the highly successful President Trump 92% of the time.
Barack Obama had a cake walk with the media.
When President Trump gets a chance to tell his side of the story — unfiltered — and he gets a chance to tell THE FULL STORY with all of his accomplishments that are ignored by the state-run media his approval ratings...
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