The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Source: Fox News
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:25 PM
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Trump Wants To Make America "White" Again With Immigration Proposal
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., who was on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ said we “don’t need that type of rhetoric on either side, from Nancy, (Speaker) Paul Ryan or anybody else.”
Trump’s proposal would offer a path to
citizenship for 1.8 million so-called “Dreamers.” He would insist on $25
billion in funding for a border wall and security. The proposal also
called for a crackdown on chain migration and the diversity visa lottery
program.
Pelosi wrote in a statement on Friday that the 50 percent cut to legal
immigration and the “recent announcements to end Temporary Protected
Status for Central Americans and Haitians are both part of the same
cruel agenda. They are part of the Trump administration’s unmistakable
campaign to make America white again.”
She tweeted the comment.
Reuters reported that Manchin is a leader of a bipartisan Senate group
that is working on an immigration solution.
The Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, dismissed Trump’s
plan Friday as a "wish list" for hard-liners. He acknowledged the
bipartisan common ground on protections for the immigrants now shielded
by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
But he accused Trump of using them as "a tool to tear apart our legal
immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration
hardliners have advocated for years."
The Associated Press contributed to this report
