Grace Segers (CBS NEWS) reports:
President Trump gave what he called a "major announcement" about the southern border and the partial government shutdown on Saturday. In his speech, Mr. Trump cited the "humanitarian crisis" at the border, where he said young children were being "exploited" by coyotes and women were being sexual assaulted. He did not distinguish between illegal migration and asylum seekers.
"The lack of border control provides a gateway -- and a very wide and open gateway -- to allow illegal criminal and aliens to get into the United States," Mr. Trump said, adding that he would keep to the promise he made as a candidate to "fix this crisis."
The deal Mr. Trump laid out included $800 million in immediate humanitarian aid, $805 million for improved drug detection technology at legal ports of entry, hiring 2,750 new border agents and 75 new immigration judge teams to reduce court backlogs -- all of which Democrats support. The deal also includes new system to allow Central American minors to apply for asylum in their home countries.
CNN reports:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not even wait for the speech to reject the proposal. She said it was a "a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people's lives."
"It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter. For one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports," Pelosi said in a statement.
When was there a "permanent solution for the Dreamers"? There wasn't. Donald Trump is offering three years which would put us into 2022. At which point, there's a good chance the president of the United States would be someone other than Donald Trump. He's promising a great deal. Is the point to help immigrants because, if so, the Democrats should take the deal.
We're reminded of Cher's Tweet eleven days ago.
FOR trump THIS IS POLITICAL..BUT REAL PPL ARE REALLY SUFFERING 
WHERE WAS THE FKNG
CRISIS 1 MONTH AGO,1YR AGO
WHERE HAS IT BEEN FOR THE LAST 2 YRS. HAVING SAID THATNANCY YOU ARE A HERO LET HIM HAVE HIS FKNG MONEYPPL WILL STARVE
LOSE THEIR HOMES, B UNABLE 2 C DRS
WHERE WAS THE FKNG
CRISIS 1 MONTH AGO,1YR AGO
WHERE HAS IT BEEN FOR THE LAST 2 YRS. HAVING SAID THATNANCY YOU ARE A HERO LET HIM HAVE HIS FKNG MONEYPPL WILL STARVELOSE THEIR HOMES, B UNABLE 2 C DRS
In the end, this is about people's lives. If the Democrats can get all that for building the wall then build it already. Walls can be built and they can be torn down. Why is this issue bringing the government to a standstill.
Dreamers get something out of this deal. Immigrants get something out of this deal.
Make the deal!
End the shutdown and make the deal.
And grasp as well that building the wall is going to create jobs which is also good for the country.
