E was ending the daca program. It hundred thousand young people brought here illegally, work permits, when President Trump ended that, he wanted congress to act. In marchn to expire that is the deadline basically set for congress. President trump said i will lay out some principles i want to see in legislation to protect lease group of people. That is the deadline basically set for congress. Like you said, seven pages long. It is a wish list of actions for changing immigration policy. Host it is a big ask. Guest it is. It touches on most every aspect of immigration policy from building a border wall to increasing deportation. Host some of the things out, the houseid minority leader and the senate what was saidr, at the meeting and what ended up in the final document and do they match. Guest Chuck Schumer said they came to an agreement with President Trump, and they would push through a law like the dream act. Trump said he would not insist on building a border wall. The border wall is the first item on the list. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer said it would be a nonstarter. Host we will talk about some of the details of proposals from the white house and what it does for dreamers overall. If you want to ask a question for Brian Bennett, besides the funding for the wall, some of the other elements in the proposal for the white house include reducing immigration backlog and would ensure a swift return and would hire 10,000 more officers with federal Immigration Law. Can you talk about how those play into it . The big picture is if were going to sign off and permanently legalize it hundred thousand people, we want to put in strict controls to make sure we dont get into a position later where we have a large influx of immigrants coming into the country illegally. Laidan eye to that, they these things out. They say build a physical structure. Laid these things out. They create a torrent. Put in more officers on the fear into the immigrant community so fewer people are willing to come in the future illegally. There are a number of other these are cities like los , we are here to force law. Ration so this law. Proposal we should cut down federal grants to cities that dont cooperate fully with federal immigration. It requires employers to a database when they hire someone. The other thing they want is to end with changing immigration systems so that people who are allowed to come in to come into the country illegally cannot then sponsor relatives later on. Host again, Brian Bennett joining us from the Los Angeles Times on dreamers and daca recipients. John starts us off this morning in florida, republican line. Obama created this problem where he took my grandkids and Great Grandkids dream away from them. I do not want anyone to negotiate my kids rights. I do not want to negotiate my kids rights. They need it right along with their parents. They took our american citizen i did not want an illegal alien in a foxhole. Host we will let our guest respond. Uest a lot of frustration this is something they say is a major motivation for them, and in their view, they think it would raise wages. Some economists differ on that. There are different opinions that look at the economy and say actually having this influx of workers has allowed businesses to grow. There are some people who feel jobs wouldw skilled not be taken by american workers, necessarily. This is something the Trump Administration has an pushing hard on. They believed by cracking down on immigration, they can raise wages and address concerns the caller brought up. When it comes to recipients, these are people who, it hundred thousand people who are brought here to the country as minors, as kids, many of them do not speak the language of the country and do not know their home country and feel like it would be incredibly alienating and isolating. Caller let me tell you where i sit before i to you or i stand, as one of my favorite talk show hosts likes to say. The grandson of a legal immigrant roughly a hundred years ago, eastern europe, we all know the history. Basically, they had to be medically cleared, there was not a welfare state at the time. You were pretty much on your own. You had to have a job, community, Family Support to launch yourself at the time. The american taxpayer was not on the hook. I grew up in a diverse , europeans, juice, russians, and so on and so forth. Everyone wanted to be an american. Fastforward another 30 or so years. What was promised and never delivered why the democrats was Border Security, immigration, restrictions to grant amnesty of the time. Again, there were provisions enhanced Border Security and Immigration Law and customs. Bush. Orward to george i think a law was passed white in regards to funding and building the border wall appeared never happened. Host what would he like our guest to a dress . Well, that this is scenario. Cy and linus lets stop with the immigrants and adjusted with ilLegal Immigration. Over the last 30 years, a lot of conservatives feel like we have laid this out before. There has been a proposal on the table to legalize a Large Population of people and it did not come with additional the table to legalize a Large Population of people and it did donald trump has said he is sympathetic to this population through no far nofly no fault of his own. To couple the proposal and protect them with really strict in the enforcing. Host they are a legislative vehicle that closely matches that and what are the chances of that happening . This reads like a massive copperheads of Immigration Reform package. It is very unlikely all of these principles were put into one bill. There. R of proposals out our would reshape immigration system, which currently favors it turns the meritbased system based on skills and needs. There will be a debate about funding the government. It is possible access for dreamers and Border Security spending would be a way to gather votes. Host there is a line about the meritbased point system for immigration. This and is about it a change for green cards . A total change for how the u. S. Immigration system has worked for the past five decades. Oftus favoring relatives people who already arrived here, it would basically create a is somewhat the government sees at the current as the current use of the economy and rewards green cards based on that. People who like it. 2 canada and australia. Raise themselves up by their bootstraps. It is a debate the country will have to have if the meritbased system gets traction. Who covers bennett the white house for the Los Angeles Times. Bill, go ahead. Caller thank you for cspan. Dober one, all trump had to is reverse obamas dream act. Just reverse it, not kick it down the road to congress. Both parties, the establishment, they want all of these people coming in. It is like the grapes of wrath. Him one they paid dollar an hour and then they brought more in, . 50 an hour, a quarter of an hour. And i want to throw one thing and for the veterans. We feel left out. Everyone else is being helped by us. I do know know why a soldier only gets 10,000 a year when he gets killed on the battlefield. His family loves them as much as a victim or something. Guest President Trump could have just ended daca outright. He had the power to end it on one day and not set up a timeline. Is, as of a week ago, they stopped receiving applications for renewals for the twoyear work permit. On marchin to expire 5. Two years after that, all of the existing 800,000 work permits will expire and the program will send entirely here that is a fact, that is what is happening and what has been set in motion by donald trump. The program is coming to an end. Congress to fix it but congress does not have to act and it is entirely possible they will not get the act together before march. Start receive this will losing their jobs. The president calling out democrats saying the problem with agreeing to a policy on immigration is democrats dont want secure borders. They dont care about safety for the usa. The democratsre would take issue with that characterization. They look at some security put such as building a wall across the entire southern border and they say our money could be better spent. That, cartels are savvy and they will find a way to get around a wall. That, cartels are savvy and they will find a way to get around a wall. There is a larger question, deporting them. Right now, there is about 5000 deportation officers in the country. The Trump Administration was that be 15,000. People who live in small communities have a large immigration population. Some people want to see immigrants who are here illegally deported. Recognize large corporations would close shops to cater to those communities. Businesses would have a hard time finding workers in some areas. Host nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer putting out a statement. They said we told the president at our meeting that we were open to reasonable Border Security and it goes on to talk about what they were looking for. Part, theyr their were saying were open to compromise on this. Democrats are the open to spending more on Border Security and i think the red line for them will be reshaping the immigration system. It would be a tough pill for them to swallow. I think the democrats would have a hard time increasing interior enforcement because of what that will do around the country. Hear from mary, south carolina, republican line. Is mary and i am all for the daca children being allowed to stay in the country simply because of the fact that they were raised here and they do not know any other life. How can you send them back to el salvador or mexico and expect them to survive when they have been made but at the same time, i would deport their parents and not turn a hair. Im tired of people to come coming into the country and telling us what we have to do. When my people came here, they came here in 1749. They had to learn to be americans and we are americans now. We do not want to have to pay for all these people to bring and we have to raise them and pay for housing inetimes and their food their medical care. No wonder infrastructure has gone to hell. My family did not come here that way. They made a life here. That is all i have to say. Thank you. Guest this question of migration is something donald trump has said he tweeted out a few weeks ago. Itthere was a deal on daca, couldnt include chain migration, which would basically mean if there were a law that passed that ended the rivals program forreated a dreamers, that somehow trump would insist the law include a provision that once those people became u. S. Citizens, they would not be able to sponsor their relatives to come into the country legally. We will have to see how that lays out. Daniel in west virginia, democrat line. Caller the problem i have is why are they including legal whenration in the package immigrantshe legal who come here are very high skilled and contributed immensely to the u. S. Economy and also create jobs. Why would they include Legal Immigration when we have an aging population. Who will pay for Social Security if the rate at which the American Population is aging if we dont have legal immigrants who will come and who are young and starting businesses and also contributing at a high level to the economy . Why are they including Legal Immigration when two of the president s lives are immigrants themselves . Saying legal immigrants should not be able to sponsor family members. Can you tell me which one of millennials family members would keep away from the United States host ok thanks. Guest this is interesting about trump pushing back on the proposal. It not only tackles concerns about immigrants coming into the country illegally but it also new proposal for restricting ilLegal Immigration. Forould eliminate the need the lottery which has allowed 500,000 people from africa in the last few decades, and it was open up theorder to green card lottery to more people around the country and give people even if they did not come from western europe, didnt have a college degree, more people opportunities, start a Small Business and make a life for themselves here. Changeng that would be a in the american approach to immigration. The Bigger Picture the Trump Administration talks about, the u. S. Currently admits about one Million People a year illegally in the country with green cards. They would like to see the numbers go down. There is a concern that Trump Administration officials were concerned about them been snapping able to assimilate into the u. S. There is a longstanding tradition and a debate the country needs to have is what are the priorities as a country . Host the president is trying to gain support for what he wants in these principles. How does that ultimately impact the kind of support they will get for what they want to see legislatively . Picking fights with people in your own party is not going to generate more support. One thing trump does is he pushes back really hard when he is pushed. Senator corker is in line with that. He tries to lay out a strong position and does not like it when people in his own party push back on that. We will have to see. He did play a round of golf with Lindsey Graham yesterday. Senator graham has been a critic of immigration decisions and we will have to see if that bore any fruit or if he is able to make a deal on that. They discussed immigration in addition to north korea and iran. We do not know what came out of the talks. Host illinois, independent line, henrietta, go ahead. Caller i am not against immigration but Legal Immigration. Here of all, people come and they have been hit 15 and 20 years and they dont speak our language. Do not, they are not in Social Security. You go to the Social Security interpreters. Ve why in america do you have to speak spanish . You go over to mexico or guatemala, you have to learn their language. These people dont care about america. They do not even try to learn the language. I have seen them. They have been here 25 years, still no english. And you dont need a border wall. This is a longstanding debate in the United States, what are we as a country . There have been people in the United States who have rejected immigrants in the past. There were laws past 100 years of to try and stop it wave chinese immigrants coming in and providing cheap labor to build railways. Backlash against italian and irish immigrants of the past. The question the country faces now is are we in a totally different era or is this similar to pass moments when there was\ feeling aw immigrants fear that they would not immigrate. And then finding their children did assimilate into the country. It is a debate we will have to have over the next several months about the character of the country. Louisiana, democrat line. Caller thank you. Who is these people . About children, human beings, peoples lives. That is what youre talking about. We about some people who come here and dona how to speak english. Louisiana, they speak pure french, no english. Are they american citizens . Yes they are. If someone speaks another language, they are not an american citizen . These people . They have got a label . We have got to come together as a country and as human beings. We have got to come together as , represent. D out inas any legislator, absolute support of the president and who is he looking to to gain or rally support . There are members of congress particularly in the house who fully support the things the president has put out. I have not checked that i am sure the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is in favor of these puzzles. The question is what could actually get past. There is a group of lawmakers in. He house paul ryan has tasked i do not think theyre looking at everything in this single page document. Same goes for efforts in the senate. They will decide what they want as a priority. Sidee on the restriction of the debate feel like they would like more on the on what the priority is. Like ok, please just tell us what the top things you want and we will get you to sign it. There will be discussions to narrow that and come up with key items. Host one more call on the republican line. Go ahead. Took away from sanctuary , speaking a different makes us what language one people . They cannot operate with a whole bunch of languages. Six here and six there and we are not one people. We need to either build a wall. R do that and do the job stop the immigrants coming in here. In the 1950s, my fatherinlaw. As a cotton farmer all of them back then decided how many workers they need and they would contact the governor Government Official and they auld go to mexico and pick up number of workers and take care of them. When the cotton was picked, that really worked good back then. All of these big vegetable farms could do that and get all of the workers they need. We could do that with specialized people we need. They need to learn english and assimilate into our society