You can read Trump's 293-page immigration bill here. Bernardo Uresti, Editor of the Mainland Blog, provide this helpful synopsis:

The Editor: The Editor has posted the proposed GOP immigration bill.  It is 293 pages in length.  It tracks the Trump and Roger Rocha 4 Pillars Immigration Plan.  It contains $16,625,000,000 for the wall, shrinks chain migration, taking married children of U.S. Citizens and siblings out of the immigration chain.  It leaves spouses and children and parents in the chain. It offers a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers with an initial 5 year conditional non-immigrant  status.  The bill would end the lottery system, where 50,000 plus their immediate family members are affected.  The purpose of the GOP bill is to make America white again.  Some of the countries that would feel the effect of this immigration cut back would be India, China, Mexico, Philippines, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.  Approximately 1 million people are legally admitted to the United State annually.  The object of this legislation is to reduce the flow by about 50% to 60%.  This bill would ban the separation of children from their families.  Trump has already indicated he will veto the bill.  The GOP whip might not want to whip GO'ers if the President intends to veto the bill.  Nobody is happy with the bill.

The madness.

Angela

House Immigration Bill, Pitched as Compromise, Tilts to a Harder Line

WASHINGTON — An immigration invoice pitched as a compromise between conservative and reasonable Republicans would make sweeping adjustments to the United States’ immigration device whilst organising a particular visa program that will give younger undocumented immigrants the risk to turn out to be voters in line with elements like employment and training.

The draft invoice, circulating amongst lawmakers on Thursday afternoon and up for a vote subsequent week, carefully adheres to President Trump’s imaginative and prescient for an immigration overhaul. In addition to protective the younger immigrants, it supplies billions of greenbacks for a wall at the southwest border whilst enforcing new limits on criminal immigration.

The invoice would additionally support laws for asylum seekers. And it will cope with the separation of children from parents beneath the Trump management’s crackdown on unlawful border crossings through mandating that households be saved in combination whilst within the custody of the Department of Homeland Security, in accordance to a abstract of the measure.

In impact, the measure would provide Democrats and immigration moderates within the Republican Party a tricky selection: settle for hard-line adjustments to a lot of the immigration device in alternate for protections for younger undocumented immigrants and what seems to be a amendment of the wrenching coverage of splitting up households on the border.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, triedThursday to blame Democrats for the family-separation coverage that the Trump management began — as a result of Democrats have refused to settle for the wider adjustments in immigration coverage demanded through the president.

“The separation of illegal alien families is the product of the same legal loopholes that Democrats refuse to close, and these laws are the same that have been on the books for over a decade,” she mentioned.

The proposed invoice, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018, grew out of weeks of negotiations between Republican conservatives and moderates.

“We’re bringing legislation that’s been carefully crafted and negotiated to the floor,” Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin mentioned Thursday. “We won’t guarantee passage.”

And its passage is a ways from confident. Within hours of the draft’s unlock, Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, mentioned that it will urge lawmakers to vote in opposition to the measure, deriding it as “amnesty.”

Immigration rights teams are nearly sure to oppose it, as neatly. And Democrats, who had been reduce out of negotiations, will in all probability oppose it.

“It is nothing more than a cruel codification of President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda that abandons our nation’s heritage as a beacon of hope and opportunity,” mentioned Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic chief.

In one sense, Mr. Ryan has already succeeded, having quashed a rebellion from moderate lawmakers who had been making an attempt to use a parliamentary maneuver identified as a discharge petition to drive votes this month on immigration.

Had the petition succeeded, the House would have regarded as — and nearly unquestionably handed — a bipartisan measure that will pair a trail to citizenship for the younger undocumented immigrants introduced to the rustic illegally as youngsters, identified as Dreamers, with enhanced border safety.

But the petition fell two signatures short of the quantity it wanted — and moderates misplaced a lot in their leverage.

Mr. Ryan referred to as the brand new immigration measure a “very good compromise” and mentioned he was hoping it will move. But Democrats and different critics of the speaker mentioned that the invoice is destined to fail, and accused Mr. Ryan of hanging it at the ground only to give political duvet to the moderates, lots of them inclined on this fall’s midterm elections and going through calls for from constituents to cope with the Dreamers’ destiny.

Hundreds of 1000’s Dreamers were protected against deportation through an Obama-era initiative identified as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which Mr. Trump moved last year to end.

Under the proposed invoice, Dreamers can be in a position to follow for a six-year renewable criminal standing, assuming that they meet sure standards, together with having been beneath 16 once they entered the United States.

The new merit-based visa program would give them an road to download citizenship — even though this system can be open to others past Dreamers, a design that might make it much less offensive to conservatives loath to approve any more or less “special pathway” to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Through this system, Dreamers can be in a position to download inexperienced playing cards, and, in flip, citizenship. The program would come with a level device in line with like training stage, army carrier and employment.

The draft invoice additionally contains adjustments to the criminal immigration device. It would do away with the variety visa lottery device, which is meant to herald immigrants from underrepresented nations. It would additionally curb family-based immigration, getting rid of the visa classes for married youngsters of United States voters and siblings of grownup voters.

Such family-based migration is the cornerstone of the prevailing immigration device, however Mr. Trump has been urgent to transfer towards a device that favors skilled pros and professional employees.

The invoice would enhance border safety, offering budget for Mr. Trump’s promised wall at the southern border with Mexico, whilst additionally together with adjustments supposed to improve immigration enforcement — vital provisions to conservatives and to the president.

In an obvious effort to discourage lawmakers from rescinding investment for the wall sooner or later, the invoice would tie the border-wall cash to the issuance of visas beneath the merit-based program.

Republicans, who mentioned Thursday afternoon that they had been digesting the 293-page file, gave the impression to have combined perspectives. A significant query is whether or not conservatives, together with contributors of the House Freedom Caucus, will give a boost to the law.

“It’s going to legalize people who are illegally in America,” mentioned Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, who is understood for his hard-line perspectives on immigration. He mentioned he would vote in opposition to the invoice: “That’s amnesty.”

But Representative Tom MacArthur of New Jersey, who considers himself a “center-right” Republican, mentioned that he used to be inspired through the draft and that the negotiations that produced it have been unifying for the Republican convention.

“It’s forced all of the different perspectives to come together and talk about what really matters,” Mr. MacArthur mentioned.

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