{"html":"\t\n\t\u003C!-- Advertisement Script --\u003E\n\t\u003Cscript \u003E\n\t\t\n\t\tvar key = [];\n\t\tvar values = [];\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tkey.push(\u0022tn_keyword\u0022);\n\t\t\t\tvalues.push(\u0022\u0027donald-tru\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027\u0022);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkey.push(\u0022tn_author\u0022);\n\t\t\t\tvalues.push(\u0022\u0027joan-w\u0027\u0022);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\u003C\/script\u003E\n\t\t\t\n\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022postid-270899 scrolltrace textContainer_Truncate\u0022 articlelisttitle=\u0022The New Trump Immigration Plan Is Anti-American\u0022 articlelistlinks=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-new-trump-immigration-plan-is-anti-american\/\u0022 article-post-id=\u0022270899\u0022 article-keyword=\u0022\u0027donald-tru\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027\u0022 article-subject=\u0022\u0027congress\u0027, \u0027democrats\u0027, \u0027executive-\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027politics\u0027, \u0027republican\u0027, \u0027the-right\u0027\u0022 article-authors=\u0022\u0027joan-w\u0027\u0022\u003E\n\t\n\t\t\u003Carticle id=\u0022url-title\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv id=\u0022tn_pixel_270899_1\u0022 style=\u0027height:0px; 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\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022cta\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenationwineclub.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cinput type=\u0022button\u0022 class=\u0022btn btn_3dab00 wine_signup\u0022 name=\u0022submit_sailthru\u0022 value=\u0022LEARN MORE\u0022 style=\u0022background : #cc0e0e !important;color : #ffffff !important\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\t\t   \n\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\t\n\t\t \u003Cp\u003EAfter Donald Trump shocked reporters Wednesday night by saying that the so-called DREAMers, young people brought to the United States by their parents without documents, should be eligible for some kind of \u201cpathway to citizenship,\u201d I publicly suggested that the so-called president might be in trouble, when he returned from his Davos jaunt, with the real Oval Office powers: Chief of Staff John Kelly and senior policy advisor Stephen Miller. I\u2019ve taken to calling them #PresidentKelly and #VicePresidentMiller, because they\u2019ve scuttled at least two potential immigration deals between Trump and a bipartisan group of Congress members working hard on the issue.\u003Caside class=\u0022ad right most-popular-plus-ad grey_back\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv id=\u0022ad-halfpage-270899-0\u0022 class=\u0022sailthru_class_form\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\u0022 class=\u0022ad-policy\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAd Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\t\t\u003Cscript \u003E\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\tfunction load_article_ads(){\n\t\t\t\tif( jQuery(\u0022#ad-halfpage-270899-0\u0022).is(\u0022:empty\u0022) ){call_ad_new(\u0027halfpage\u0027,\u0027tn_article\u0027,\u0027ad-halfpage-270899-0\u0027,\u0027rectangle_1\u0027,{\u0022tn_author\u0022:\u0022\u0027joan-w\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_articleid\u0022:270899,\u0022tn_ptype\u0022:\u0022article\u0022,\u0022tn_keyword\u0022:\u0022\u0027donald-tru\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_subject\u0022:\u0022\u0027congress\u0027, \u0027democrats\u0027, \u0027executive-\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027politics\u0027, \u0027republican\u0027, \u0027the-right\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_slp\u0022:\u0022\u0022});}\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t}\t\n\t\n\t\t\tjQuery(\u0027#expand-reduce-270899\u0027).click(function(){\n\t\t\t\tif( isMobile.any() ){\n\t\t\t\t\tcall_ad_new(\u0027halfpage\u0027,\u0027tn_article\u0027,\u0027ad-halfpage-270899-0\u0027,\u0027rectangle_1\u0027,{\u0022tn_author\u0022:\u0022\u0027joan-w\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_articleid\u0022:270899,\u0022tn_ptype\u0022:\u0022article\u0022,\u0022tn_keyword\u0022:\u0022\u0027donald-tru\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_subject\u0022:\u0022\u0027congress\u0027, \u0027democrats\u0027, \u0027executive-\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027politics\u0027, \u0027republican\u0027, \u0027the-right\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_slp\u0022:\u0022\u0022});\t\n\t\t\t\t}\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t});\t\n\t\t\u003C\/script\u003E \n\t\t\n\u003Cp\u003EI could not imagine that pair had signed off on Trump\u2019s dangling a citizenship opportunity for those whose potential deportation had been deferred by President Obama, an executive order Trump reversed in September. It turns out I was wrong. Trump is not in trouble with Miller and Kelly\u2014because Trump was in fact revealing part of their hardline, nativist immigration proposal. It offers a 10-12 year pathway to citizenship for the 700,000 Dreamers, plus another million or so undocumented young people in similar straits. But in exchange, Trump\u2019s White House is demanding that Democrats as well as pro-reform Republicans accede to proposals that will cut legal immigration by an estimated 50 percent, particularly limiting the flow of non-white immigrants, plus squander $25 billion on the mythical border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.\n\u003Cp\u003ETo put it another way: the Trump White House has taken the Dreamers hostage. To free them and other young immigrants like them, they\u2019re telling Democrats (and pro-reform Republicans), you\u2019ve got to give us the other nine million people here illegally and turn away roughly half of the legal immigrants who would otherwise be able to come here in the future.\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore we get caught up in politically handicapping this proposal, let\u2019s call it what it is: The cowardly and overwhelmingly racist repudiation of the nation\u2019s central animating idea, \u003Cem\u003Ee pluribus unum.\u003C\/em\u003E Progressives tend to resist the lure of \u201cAmerican exceptionalism,\u201d for good reason. But if there\u2019s anything exceptional about this country, it is that. Despite all of our historic mistakes and cruelties\u2014from eradicating native people to enslaving Africans, persecuting some European immigrant groups and then Latinos and Asians; from Jim Crow to Trump\u2019s birtherism\u2014most Americans know we are mostly a nation of immigrants and are proud of it. This proposal takes an axe to the pillars of American immigration policy. It comes from what was once the radical, nativist fringe of the GOP, which has now, sadly, become its mainstream.\t\u003Caside class=\u0022left indent indents related-oneup\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\u003Ch4\u003ERelated Article\u003C\/h4\u003E\t\t\n\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022oneup-blocks\u0022\u003E  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022oneup-block-img\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/jeff-sessions-doj-crime-ap-img.jpg?scale=228&compress=80\u0022 alt=\u0022The Nation\u0022\/\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-trump-administrations-dangerous-obsession-with-crimes-committed-by-immigrants\/\u0022 class=\u0022related-oneup-click\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ch5\u003EThe Trump Administration\u2019s Dangerous Obsession With Crimes Committed by Immigrants\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022author\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/michelle-chen\/\u0022\u003EMichelle Chen\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\t\n \n \n \n\u003Cp\u003ESo far, Democrats and immigrant rights groups aren\u2019t falling for it. “This is the play being run from the White House: ‘You guys are desperate for Dreamer relief. 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United We Dream\u2019s Greisa Martinez Rosas called the proposal “a white supremacist ransom note.”\u003Caside class=\u0022right hidden-on-mobile most-popular-plus-ad\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022most-popular hover_b_remove\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ch3\u003EMost Popular\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E1\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/scott-walker-is-literally-preventing-wisconsinites-from-voting\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Scott Walker Is Literally Preventing Wisconsinites From Voting\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EScott Walker Is Literally Preventing Wisconsinites From Voting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E2\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/a-progressive-reformist-is-leading-mexicos-presidential-polls-and-washington-is-freaking-out\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027A Progressive Reformist Is Leading Mexico\u2019s Presidential Polls\u2014and Washington Is Freaking Out\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EA Progressive Reformist Is Leading Mexico\u2019s Presidential Polls\u2014and Washington Is Freaking Out\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E3\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-end-of-mens-freedom-to-bother\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027The End of Men\u2019s \u2018Freedom to Bother\u2019\u0027,\u00270\u0027)\u0022\u003EThe End of Men\u2019s \u2018Freedom to Bother\u2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022popular-article\u0022\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E4\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-us-has-military-bases-in-172-countries-all-of-them-must-close\/\u0022 onclick=\u0022ga(\u0027send\u0027, \u0027event\u0027, \u0027Most Popular\u0027, \u0027Click Most Popular\u0027, \u0027The US Has Military Bases in 80 Countries. 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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who disappointed some progressives and immigration advocates when he agreed to reopen the government on Monday without a DACA fix, tweeted that Trump is using Dreamers \u201cas a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hardliners have advocated for for years.” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin echoed Schumer, saying the proposal represented a “hardline immigration agenda\u2014including massive cuts to legal immigration\u2014on the backs of these young people.” GOP Senators Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, who\u2019ve been seeking a bipartisan DACA deal, also dismissed the proposal. As I write, pundits are pearl-clutching over House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi\u2019s suggestion that it\u2019s a proposal to \u201cmake America white again.\u201d But that is, in fact, what it is.\n\u003Cp\u003EStill, I worry this could be slightly crafty on the part of hardliners like Miller and Kelly: Democrats, and the Dreamers themselves laudably, have made these 700,000 immigrants the sympathetic public faces of the undocumented. Now, the White House knows it has these particularly affecting, politically potent symbols in its hands. 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loopholes” that currently give them certain rights and increasing funding for the security apparatus that hunts them down.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERestrict \u201cfamily unification\u201d permits\u2014letting family members of legal immigrants ultimately join them\u2014to minor children and spouses only; no more parents, grandparents or siblings.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEntirely eliminate the diversity visa lottery\u2014you know, the one that Trump said brought us people from \u201cshithole\u201d countries.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESpend up to $25 billion on an unnecessary border wall, plus billions more other kinds of border “security,” some of it abusive.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGrant Steve Bannon his most fervent wish, cutting back on \u003Cem\u003Elegal\u003C\/em\u003E immigration, by an estimated 50 percent.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYes, Bannon is gone, from both the White House and Breitbart.com, but he\u2019s not forgotten. Trump\u2019s nativist former chief strategist laid out the broad goals of this plan two years ago, back before he (officially) joined Team Trump, when he was still doing \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/2\/2\/14472404\/steve-bannon-legal-immigration-problem\u0022\u003EBreitbart\u2019s SiriusXM radio show.\u003C\/a\u003E His guest was Steven Miller, then a Jeff Sessions immigration aide. Their exchange will help you understand Trump\u2019s new bill:\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBANNON: Isn\u2019t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, is not illegal immigration? As horrific as that is, and it\u2019s horrific, don\u2019t we have a problem, we\u2019ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that\u2019s kinda overwhelmed the country? 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That is not what a good nation should do, and we need to get away from it.”\n\u003Cp\u003EWe know whom Sessions is talking about. Twelve years ago, he opposed a version of bipartisan immigration reform, saying: \u201cFundamentally, almost no one coming from the Dominican Republic to the United States is coming here because they have a provable skill that would benefit us and that would indicate their likely success in our society. They come in because some other family member of a qualified relation is here as a citizen or even a green card holder. That is how they get to come.\u201d \n\u003Cp\u003ETrump didn\u2019t mention the Dominican Republic per se in his \u201cshithole\u201d rant; instead he asked \u201cWhy do we want people from Haiti here?\u201d while suggesting we need more Norwegians. What more do we need to know to understand the deep racism of their project?\n\u003Cp\u003EI wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-chances-for-a-daca-deal-wont-be-better-in-february\/\u0022\u003Eearlier this week\u003C\/a\u003E that I was afraid the Kelly\/Miller White House was trying to force Sessions\u2019s nativist version of comprehensive reform on Democrats and pro-immigrant Republicans, in exchange for a DACA fix. I was right. I was wrong about Trump flouting the wishes of Kelly and Miller \u2013 though I was right about their role in the policy. It turns out Trump made his bold statement to reporters after effectively crashing a meeting that Kelly, his own chief of staff, was having on the immigration proposal\u2014a meeting Kelly was having without his boss. So Trump rolled in and blurted out the plans for a \u201cpathway to citizenship\u201d for DACA immigrants\u2014messing up #PresidentKelly\u2019s plan to provide a background briefing for reporters, perhaps even before Trump himself knew all the details.\n\u003Cp\u003EBreitbart immediately began calling Trump \u201cAmnesty Don,\u201d and immigration hardliners like Senators Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz rejected the proposal. It\u2019s likely dead on arrival, but now we have Trump\u2019s (and Kelly\/Miller\u2019s) first serious DACA proposal. I don’t think this attempt to pit Dreamers against other immigrants is going to work, even with the Dreamers. But it’s one of the craftier moves they’ve made. Which is easy, since none of their moves have been crafty. Some version of this plan could peel off some red-state Democrats. 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