The Latest: Democrats unveil border plan, no wall money

[Pitcher]

The Latest: Democrats unveil border plan, no wall money

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and congressional negotiations on border security (all times local):

1 p.m.

Democrats are offering further details of their border security plan. They unveiled a measure Thursday that would not provide money for President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall and denying his request for additional border agents.

The move ignores Trump’s warnings that they’d be wasting their time if they don’t come up with wall money.

The Democratic measure, totaling almost $22 billion for U.S. Customs, the border patrol, and immigration agents, would significantly increase spending for scanners at ports of entry, humanitarian aid for apprehended migrants, and new aircraft to police the U.S.-Mexico border.

It would also freeze the number of border patrol agents and block any wall construction in wildlife refuges along the border. I would provide for hiring 1,000 additional customs agents.

Negotiators face a Feb. 15 deadline to avert another partial government shutdown.

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12:50 p.m.

Vice President Mike Pence is urging Congress to provide money for a border wall during a visit Thursday to the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Pence says President Donald Trump is calling for an “all of the above strategy” to keep illicit drugs out of the country, “but all of the above includes a wall.”

Pence spoke to several dozen agency employees. He says the administration will fight for a physical barrier in “critical, high-density areas where our law enforcement community says it’s most needed.”

The DEA has reported that land ports of entry are the primary means for getting drugs into the country, not stretches of the border without barriers. The agency says the most common trafficking technique by transnational criminal organizations is to hide drugs in passenger vehicles or tractor-trailers.

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12:45 p.m.

President Donald Trump says he’s not waiting on Congress to move forward with building his long-promised southern border wall. Trump pointed to work that’s already underway at the U.S.-Mexico border with funding previously appropriated.

Trump also suggested he’s still weighing the option of using his executive powers to declare a national emergency if necessary. Such a move would almost certainly face legal challenges.

Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House: “I’m not waiting for this committee.” He’s referring to the bipartisan group of lawmakers that met for the first time Wednesday to try to hash out a border security deal before the government runs out of funding again on Feb. 15.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that whatever deal is reached will not include money for Trump’s proposed wall.

Trump accused Pelosi of “playing games” and says: “If they don’t give us a wall it doesn’t work.”

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11:50 a.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there will be no money for President Donald Trump’s border wall in any deal to keep the government open past a Feb. 15deadline.

A bipartisan group of House-Senate negotiators met for the first time Wednesday, and Pelosi addressed the issue at a session with reporters on Thursday. The California Democrat said she wants to see the negotiators’ bipartisan bill by next Friday.

She told a news conference: “There will not be any wall money in the legislation.”

Trump took to Twitter on Thursday, appearing to sour on the congressional talks and tweeting that Republicans are “wasting their time” trying to negotiate with Democrats.

House Democrats offered a vague border security plan with no money for his wall. Trump wants $5.7 billion for his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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8:35 a.m.

President Donald Trump says Republicans are “wasting their time” trying to negotiate with Democrats over border wall funding. And he says he doesn’t “expect much help” from Congress in getting it built.

Trump’s comments Thursday came the day after Democrats offered no money for Trump’s long-promised wall during the first day of congressional talks on border security funding.

Trump last week signed a three-week deal to reopen the government, giving Congress time to try to hash out a deal. He’s threatened to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress if they fail to reach a deal he can sign.

But Trump already appears to have soured on the process.

He says, “Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL.”

But he adds: “I’ve got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!”

 

 

https://apnews.com/c2a379abd5fa4297943ac18d1491eef3

 

 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

So much for negotiating. Democratic Socialist never really do, their idea of negotiation is do what I say or die. Kind of like Islam, if you ask me.

[Pitcher]

I'll give Trump NOTHING for a wall but if he wants to call anti-car fencing a wall he's welcome says Nancy Pelosi as she gloats: 'Winning is good!'

• Speaker Pelosi made it clear there would be no money for President Trump's border wall in the legislation being working on to avoid another shutdown 
• 'There's not going to be any wall money in the legislation,' she said
• But she did indicate she was open to 'enhanced fencing' 
• 'If the president wants to call it a wall he can call it a wall,' she said 
• Trump fired back: 'Nancy Pelosi will be begging for a wall' 
• 'If there's no wall it doesn't work. She's just playing games,' he said of her 
• Trump repeatedly said that Democrats were free to call his wall a barrier or a fence to get past their pledges not to support a wall
• Now he says they may as well call it a wall, because that's what he's building
• He began laying brickwork for his case that the nation is facing an emergency at the border; claimed Mexico's murder rate is contributing to illegal immigration
• Also told Republicans on a bipartisan panel that they are 'wasting their time' trying to make a deal with Democrats
• 'I've got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don't expect much help!' 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear Thursday that there would be no money for President Donald Trump's border wall in the legislation lawmakers are working on to avoid another government shutdown but she did leave the door open to 'enhanced fencing.'

'There's not going to be any wall money in the legislation,' she told reporters at the Capitol. 

But she did say she would accept 'normandy fencing' - crisscrossed posts, lined with barbed wire or mesh - as it already exists in places on the border. 

'If the president wants to call it a wall he can call it a wall,' she said.

 

click the link below to read entire article. Having trouble downloading.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6654079/Pelosi-Ill-Trump-wall-wants-call-anti-car-fencing-wall-hes-can.html

[Pitcher]

Hey Pelosi, you’re not winning.  You are allowing more illegals to enter our country and your refusal to negotiate in good faith makes you and your party look weak on Border Security.

[Indraman]

There will be no deal and Trump will go the National Emergency route instead...JMHO.

 

Indy

[Karsten]

While the liberals are fighting so against the fence the Cartels will just go back to smaller shipments of say 50 pounds a day that they can walk across the open borders we have and vanish.

 

400 pounds of Fentanyl at 25 pounds per shipment is only 16 mules slipping across the border and hooking up at a central location......Or maybe they have already done that while pelosi is fighting so hard to be sure they can all com in.

 

https://rightwingfolks.com/breaking-record-fentanyl-seizure-made-at-border-enough-to-kill-57-million/

 

Karsten