What about that? I said: It is all about getting the process started. General Kelly,
we are not going to get comprehensive on our side for DACA. We are not
going to give 11 million legal status and hope that someday we will
deal with border security and merit-based immigration. We have to have
a phase one that is a down payment on all four areas outlined by the
President. By the time we got there, at noon, there were more people at the
meeting, and all I can say is that what happened between Tuesday and
Thursday, I don't know, and between 10 and 12, I don't know, but it
took us in the wrong direction. The President whom I saw on Tuesday is the man who can close this
deal and lead this country to get an answer that Obama and Bush could
never get. We are where we are. To my good friend, Senator Perdue: I share your desire to replace
chain migration with merit-based immigration. One day we will have a
system where the nuclear family gets green cards, which will free up
millions of green cards for a workforce we desperately need. The only
way you will get that is to deal with the Democrats and give them what
they are wanting out of this deal. They are not going to give us what
we want the most--which is legal immigration, a secure border, and a
merit-based immigration system, based on DACA--and let me tell you why. What leverage would they have with the 10 million illegal immigrants
that they would like to see have a better life, too? Almost none. To my colleagues on the other side, from the very first day that I
sat down and talked to you, what did I tell you?
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