Inside the Migrant Legalization Offer Congress Has Heard Before
Inside the Migrant Legalization Offer Congress Has Heard Before Trump says legal status for long-settled immigrants is “actually doable.” Will Democrats send him a bill? Pablo Manríquez Nov 12 ∙ Preview On Sunday, President Donald Trump told “60 Minutes” that his mass deportation campaign has gone too far. “I think it might be too tough, yeah,” Trump told Ross Douthat . Now the Trump is talking about a deal again on a legalization program. The people the president would need to make one in Congress are listening — but on Capitol Hill, almost nobody believes him yet. Trump Floats Legalization Trump had mentioned an immigration deal on election night, Nov. 3, in an interview with Dasha Burns , on the same evening his party lost control of both chambers of Congress. By Sunday he had a pitch. “Get the killers out. Get all the … rough ones out. Get the drug dealers out. But let the people that are here, and in some cases here for ten and 15 years, work a deal for them ,” Trump said. ...