GOP leaders scramble to contain immigration rebellion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican leaders are facing long odds as they scramble to thwart an internal rebellion over immigration just months before November’s midterms.

The leaders are attempting to broker a deal that satisfies competing factions of their restive conference and defuses a push by mutinous centrists threatening to force action to protect young undocumented immigrants in a series of head-to-head floor votes that would highlight deep GOP divisions over an issue that has long been radioactive within the party.

The dispute has centered largely on what legal protections should be extended to those living in the country illegally, and to whom they should apply — thorny enough questions on their own. But the leaders’ effort was further complicated on Thursday, when President Trump warned that he'd veto any bill to shore up the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program if it fails to fund his favored wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Unless it improves a wall — and I mean a wall, a real wall — and unless it improves very strong border security, there’ll be no approvals from me, because I have to either approve it or not,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/389452-gop-leaders-scramble-to-contain-immigration-rebellion

The Repukes want to save their party from the embarrassment of a dotard veto.

[Soxfan58]

1. The thing about walls

They can also be use to keep people in.

[Demsrule86]

2. You mean this story has legs and we shouldn't ignore it...who would have guessed !

[SWBTATTReg]

3. The only reason Repugs are doing anything for DACA is that ...

American industry needs more workers and so forth (which is why the Koch brothers are for some kind of immigration relief).

Hypocrites, not really interested in the human side of this whole sad story, of people (for the vast majority of immigrants) simply wanting a better life for them and their loved ones.