Trump’s Immigration Offer He dives back into deal-making with a constructive proposal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-immigration-offer-1516926296
Maybe an immigration compromise isn’t hopeless in 2018 after all. That’s at least a possibility after the White House floated a proposal on Capitol Hill late Thursday that would offer legalization and a path to citizenship for some 800,000 so-called Dreamers in return for funding for President Trump’s wall at the Mexico-U.S. border and other changes to U.S. immigration law.
The details weren’t fully known by our deadline Thursday, but the outline has something for both sides. Democrats would get legal protection for the Dreamers, the young adults brought here illegally as children. They could also become U.S. citizens over time, which makes sense given that this is the only country they have known for nearly all of their lives. Democrats claim to care for the well-being of these people, and this is a big concession by the President given opposition from some on the right.
Those restrictionists would get funding for the wall, which Mr. Trump campaigned on. The White House proposal also includes limits on the ability of citizens to bring adult siblings or parents into the U.S., as well as an end to the lottery program that awards 50,000 visas a year to countries that typically don’t have many immigrants.
These concessions would substantially limit the number of legal immigrants, and thus a source of talent, but we recognize that compromise is needed to break the veto that both sides have held over immigration policy for so many years. Credit Mr. Trump with recharging the chances for a deal after much recent acrimony.
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