Monday, January 29, 2018

Pelosi's 'make America white again' dig at Trump draws rebuke from fellow Democrat

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were protected from deportation under an Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) which Trump rescinded in September.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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