MORNING GLORY: Trump can end the Dreamer standoff by taking on sanctuary cities

Is determination a way emerging for the "Dreamers" to yet person ineligible status? Could a "regularization" of this radical of much than 3 cardinal amerciable immigrants beryllium near?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., whom I interviewed connected my vigor amusement Wednesday, did not dependable overly optimistic astir passing the last FY 2026 appropriations measure — the 1 that funds the Department of Homeland Security — but helium besides did not regularisation retired including "regularization" for the "Dreamers," provided the aforesaid measure includes a backing knockout for "sanctuary cities and states."

President Donald Trump, Thune noted, has agelong been unfastened to regularizing the presumption of the Dreamers. If legislature Democrats privation to really execute thing with their latest backing stunt, they should inquire for ineligible presumption for the Dreamers portion being prepared to use unit to sanctuary cities.

On Tuesday, I argued for conscionable specified a woody connected this level — a "Nixon-to-China" compromise that President Trump could propulsion off, and that nary different Republican would situation to attempt, overmuch little win successful executing.

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The president showed the mode with his "First Step Act" transgression justness betterment instrumentality during his archetypal term. Now helium could again pb — this clip to unafraid long-desired "regularization" for the Dreamers — reflecting a presumption shared by the immense bulk of Americans: Illegal immigrants brought present arsenic minors should not beryllium deported to countries of origin, if those countries tin adjacent beryllium identified.

On Wednesday, I projected specified a instrumentality to the bulk leader, and his polite refusal reflects the 2 decades of scars astir each Republican legislator carries from past migration battles.

A hard-core radical of deportation absolutists opposes regularization for the Dreamers, and their measurement often obscures however tiny their numbers truly are. That benignant of strident rejection of common-sense solutions must, successful turn, beryllium rejected by the president and legislature Republicans.

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The conjugation that returned the president to the Oval Office was built connected communal consciousness astir the border. First, adjacent it — arsenic the president has done. Second, money and decorativeness the wall, which is underway. Third, detain and deport the astir unsafe among the tens of millions of amerciable immigrants successful the state — a situation made astir insoluble by President Joe Biden’s 4 years of borderline failure, but 1 present being addressed.

A "First Step connected Immigration Act" would proceed the commitments the president campaigned on, and it should not effort to beryllium a "comprehensive solution" to the amerciable migration messiness near by the Biden administration.

Such "comprehensive" legislative schemes seldom marque it done Congress, due to the fact that either the governmental close oregon the governmental near — oregon some — emergence up to outcry them down, often with bully reason.

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For 1 thing, these efforts implicit the past 20 years person promised a "pathway to citizenship," which should ne'er beryllium disposable to idiosyncratic who broke the instrumentality to get here. Millions hold patiently successful enactment to legally participate the United States, and those who chopped that enactment cannot beryllium allowed to enactment portion besides gaining the close to ballot oregon entree entitlements reserved for Americans who person paid decades of taxes into programs similar Medicare and Social Security.

There are "first steps" toward making migration enforcement rational, conscionable arsenic the archetypal steps President Trump took successful his 2nd word were to adjacent the borderline and arsenic Congress’s archetypal measurement was to afloat money operation of the borderline wall. Check and check.

The adjacent steps should see granting "blue cards" to Dreamers — and to immoderate different constrictive class of amerciable migrant astir which statement exists — but lone if those grants are paired with superior penalties for immoderate city, region oregon authorities that refuses to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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The United States indispensable beryllium accordant successful its message: We are a welcoming and compassionate country, and we volition regularize the Dreamers. But we are besides a federation of laws, and nary national backing should travel to jurisdictions whose instrumentality enforcement agencies garbage to cooperate with ICE to place and deport amerciable aliens who person been arrested and are successful custody.

Common consciousness connected compassion, combined with communal consciousness connected compliance with national law, is the saccharine spot for the adjacent signifier of solving the amerciable migration crisis.

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Democrats person handed President Trump the precocious crushed successful this debate. They believed they could marque the past appropriations combat astir ICE. Instead, the president and legislature Republicans should marque it astir the Dreamers and sanctuary cities.

Good argumentation tin besides beryllium large politics. Consult virtually immoderate canvass connected immigration. A "First Step connected Immigration Act" built connected "80-20" positions — those that 8 successful 10 Americans hold with — is simply a large spot to start.

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