Trump move on dreamers blocked

The spokesman, Jason Samuels, would not provide details of the plan, but said "the next step is taking it to the White House" for President Donald Trump to weigh.

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?"

Trump had indicated on Tuesday during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House that he would sign just about any immigration deal that they put on his desk. Trump questioned at a White House meeting Thursday why the USA would accept more immigrants from Haiti and Africa than from places like Norway.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters there is "no point" in doing another short-term spending bill unless lawmakers have an agreement on the dreamers.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a briefing that no deal had been reached yet.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a request by California and other states to keep DACA going, at least until lawsuits can play out in court.

DICK DURBIN: I am doing my best to get everything I can under the current political circumstances. "The President invited us to - at his little get-together in the Cabinet room - to come up with proposals, and we did".

"I think that's what she's saying", said the president.

Without the President's buy-in, the work of the group can't reach the Senate floor, Republican leadership said.

While cruder and blunter than his past public statements, the president's comments were in keeping with his long-standing position that the USA should shift its immigration policy away from poorer, developing countries, and instead focus on carefully selecting educated immigrants, especially from Europe, who can already speak English and have professional or technical skills needed in the U.S.

Trump said that unnamed television anchors sent him letters praising the event.

"However, we caution against introducing unrelated, unnecessary, or controversial elements of immigration policy - especially those that jeopardize the sanctity of families or unaccompanied children - into the bipartisan search for a just and humane solution for the 'Dreamers, '" he said.

Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue and Republican Reps. As the negotiations progressed, Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte introduced his own version of a DACA fix. Cotton, Perdue, Goodlatte and McCarthy pushed back at the Durbin and Graham proposal.

"It is time for Congress to give us a lasting solution that will leave no doubt that the Dreamers are American and they are here to stay", Becerra said.

As I made very clear today, our country needs the security of the Wall on the Southern Border, which must be part of any DACA approval.

But until now, Trump's support has been contingent on Congress appropriating money to build a wall on the U.S.

"Hold up on that, because we need to see how USCIS will renew their procedure and if the administration is going to appeal and the likelihood is, yes", Aguayo stated.