Senate Rejects Trump’s Immigration Plan
- 6 years ago
Senate Rejects Trump’s Immigration Plan
WASHINGTON — In a stern rebuke to President Trump, the Senate on Thursday decisively rejected a White House rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws
that would have bolstered border security, placed strict new limits on legal migration and resolved the fate of the so-called Dreamers.
But the rejection of the president’s plan was bipartisan: Democrats refused its get-tough approach to legal immigration, while many conservative
Republicans opposed its pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
It would also have provided $25 billion for the border wall the president has proposed building at the southern border,
as well as a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants who were brought to this country as children.
The measure by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was patterned after one
that the White House proposed, but the 39-60 vote was 21 votes short of the 60 votes required for the Senate to consider it.
WASHINGTON — In a stern rebuke to President Trump, the Senate on Thursday decisively rejected a White House rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws
that would have bolstered border security, placed strict new limits on legal migration and resolved the fate of the so-called Dreamers.
But the rejection of the president’s plan was bipartisan: Democrats refused its get-tough approach to legal immigration, while many conservative
Republicans opposed its pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
It would also have provided $25 billion for the border wall the president has proposed building at the southern border,
as well as a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants who were brought to this country as children.
The measure by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was patterned after one
that the White House proposed, but the 39-60 vote was 21 votes short of the 60 votes required for the Senate to consider it.