The
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin on Sunday criticized House Democratic
leader Nancy Pelosi for dismissing a new White House immigration plan
as a way to “make America white again”.
“We
don’t need that type of rhetoric on either side, from Nancy,
[Republican House speaker] Paul Ryan or anybody else,” said Manchin, a
West Virginian moderate and a leader of a bipartisan Senate group
working on immigration who spoke to CNN’s State of the Union.
Senior
White House officials outlined the immigration plan on Thursday. It
would offer a path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million undocumented
migrants who were brought to the US as children.
Such
people, known as Dreamers, were protected from deportation under an
Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) which
Trump rescinded in September.
The
proposal also would curb some legal immigration programs and build a
border wall with Mexico. It asks for a $25bn “trust fund” for such
measures.
The
White House described the Dreamers offer as a major concession to
Democrats, but the plan was quickly dismissed by leading party figures.
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