DAVE ROSS

Does either side of immigration debate really want a deal?

Jan 17, 2018, 8:05 AM | Updated: 9:08 am

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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Both sides in the immigration debate say they want those 700,000 DACA immigrants who were brought here as children without documents to be able to stay. Because 70 percent are in college, 90 percent have jobs, and they add $460 billion to the economy.

Congress better act before it pretends to shut down

But the president is now saying for him to sign any such deal, Congress would have to approve the full $20 billion for the border wall. To which Democrats say, no way.

“The president is insisting on something that is physically, legally impossible.”

The secretary of Homeland Security says without a wall, you’ll just have more DACA kids sneaking in.

“If you are in South or Central America, those who would wish to smuggle you are able to tell you, if you get to America you can stay. So more and more are willing to undertake the journey because there is no way for me to promptly remove them.”

Which leads me to think that even though both sides say they want a deal, maybe they really don’t. Think about it. If the Democrats just let the president go ahead and start deporting all those students and doctors, it generates countless videos of families being ripped apart.

Those heart-breaking videos make Trump look heartless just in time for the 2018 election.

But those same videos would also send a strong message to would-be border crossers that America is going to kick you out no matter how deserving you may be. And if illegal border crossings take a sudden drop, the president can look the Mainstream Media straight in the eye and say, “told ‘ya so.” Also in time for the 2018 election.

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