They are Americans in
every single important way but one; they lack the paperwork. We have to
solve that problem. We have been negotiating with our Republican counterparts for weeks
in search of a deal to pair DACA protections with reasonable border
security. Democrats have always believed in border security, as the
comprehensive immigration bill in the Senate showed. I hope now that
the tax bill is behind them, my Republican colleagues are finally
willing to reach an agreement, but because of the particular importance
of all of these issues, especially Dreamers, we cannot do a short-term
funding bill that picks and chooses what problems to solve and what not
to solve. That will not be fair and will not pass.
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