Last night’s mixed messages on DACA and the U.S.-Mexico border wall were just cleared up.
President Trump made the announcement in the starkest terms possible: “If there’s not a wall, we’re doing nothing.”
BOOM!
Watch Trump’s impromptu press conference from Florida below:
Last evening, Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer announced a deal on DACA, saying that the wall wasn’t part of the negotiation. President Trump just shut that idea down.
And, surprisingly, he has the support of Republican leadership. Trump told reporters, “I just spoke with Paul Ryan, everybody’s on board.”
It’s looking more and more like Trump is open to granting legal status to those who came here illegally as children. But, he won’t do it unless he gets a guarantee of funding for the wall. That said, the president confirmed that wall funding wouldn’t necessarily be in the DACA legislation, but he would need a complete and total confirmation that wall funding was coming in order for him to sign any DACA bill into law.
President Trump is avoiding the mistakes of President Reagan, who signed an amnesty bill into law without securing border enforcement. He has learned from the past, and is determined not to commit the same errors.
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