So there are sprouts of bipartisanship--more than sprouts--that could
save us from eyeball-to-eyeball and from a shutdown. My hope is that
the President will understand it because the bill that was put together
here in the Senate was painstakingly pieced together to meet what the
President said he needed. It protects the Dreamers; includes President
Trump's full budget request for border security--far more than I would
want to do--including funding to build barriers along the southern
border; deals with family reunification--they call it chain migration--
for the Dreamers. I know that some have said: Let's do it for the whole immigration
bill, and let's talk about the 11 million, not just the Dreamers. If you want to do comprehensive, let's do comprehensive, but first
let's get DACA done. And, of course, they even got rid of the diversity program, which, as
the President noted, I was the author of and which has brought millions
of people to this country who are working hard and are good citizens
now. So it is almost everything the President requested in his televised
Tuesday meeting, which got such good reviews from one end of the
country to the other.
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