please provide quote or is that you putting words in my mouth
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"What about a clean DACA bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure?"
That doesn't seem particularly ambiguous.
If his answer were so clear, why does it require such clarification from Republicans?
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IF TRUMP WAS REAGAN: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Or leave it up. Your call, I'm good either way."
Well, he could have meant X...
Yes. Blunt simplicity, et al.
I don't know, it seems ambiguous to me when we read the (later) portion of the transcript detailing the 'go into' portion being one hour later.
They want to firmly stake some sort of claim in a piece of legislation that otherwise has Democrat written all over it?Quote:
If his answer were so clear, why does it require such clarification from Republicans?
Ehh, I have always seen DACA and immigration reform as two different things. One is about being humane to kids and not punishing them for the crimes of their parents. The other is about making it harder to commit those crimes in the future, and actually enforcing those laws.
"I think a clean DACA bill, to me, is a DACA bill, but we take care of the 800,000 people . . . but I think, to me, a clean bill is a bill of DACA, we take care of them, and we also take care of security."
Again, pretty simple to me.
A clean bill takes care of DACA and takes care of security.
You are choosing to run with a definition of 'clean bill' that can only be about DACA, which is about as disingenuous as the body of your critique here.
So what did Feinstein mean?
Not a Trump or Hilldog supporter but one of the things I actually approved of from the Trump camp was his promise to make US drug companies compete with Canada and possibly others. This was I believe the first promise he backed out on. Not fun when they do that, huh?:
Well, let's see what they do with legislation. I'd like to see the concept tightened up a bit.
If Trump can use DACA as a pawn to push through comprehensive reform (addressing things like the H1B and chain migration, among others) then it might be worth it in the end.
And yes, I take from that statement that he supports a daca fix plus border security. Tortured as the language is, it's ultimately comprehensible.
My point is that the sum of his statements was ambiguous enough that they required extensive cleaning up after the fact, which wouldn't have been necessary had he clearly answered DF's inquiry. This is neither disingenuous nor controversial...it's backed up by media response to the meeting across the spectrum.
I actually appreciate your pushback against facile criticisms and lazy media narratives about Trump, but when you just blatantly stan for him in support of a similarly facile counternarrative...I dunno. You are diligent and tenacious, but you don't have a lot to work with.
THE PRESIDENT: I think what we’re all saying is we’ll do DACA and we can certainly start comprehensive immigration reform the following afternoon. Okay? We’ll take an hour off and then we’ll start.
SENATOR FEINSTEIN: Okay.