the daca recipients, said it was going to go away. and democrats you better act unless you see these people you care about and want to protect be subject to deportation. so you don t have that leverage anymore? that s right. if you don t act now, democrats you, won t have anything and daca recipients will get deported. that s not the case. we don t have to accept things that are truly egregious, have nothing to do with fixing our broken immigration system in order to get daca relief. and so focus on now getting daca relief. test the president. if he is serious that he wants to get daca done, test republicans. if they re serious they want to get daca done, then let s do it. what s the timeline look like right now? well, if we go through the regular rule, process and not try to circumvent it the way the president has tried to do on several occasions, we re probably looking at a lawsuit that will run itself over a course of another months if not another year. perhaps more. if the pr
is a kind of hostage situation. they took these hostages. the daca recipients, said it was going to go away. and democrats you better act unless you see these people you care about and want to protect be subject to deportation. so you don t have that leverage anymore? that s right. if you don t act now, democrats you, won t have anything and daca recipients will get deported. that s not the case. we don t have to accept things that are truly egregious, have nothing to do with fixing our broken immigration system in order to get daca relief. and so focus on now getting daca relief. test the president. if he is serious that he wants to get daca done, test republicans. if they re serious they want to get daca done, then let s do it. what s the timeline look like right now? well, if we go through the regular rule, process and not try to circumvent it the way the president has tried to do on several occasions, we re probably looking at a lawsuit that will run itself over a
sixth of march if something gets done by the 5th. that s a great question. many of us have been working day in and day out. provide some kind of daca relief. especially since 83% of americans or more support allowing the dreamers to stay here. that march 5 date is an important one and what i think you ll see is many stories of people who will be deported. and remember, the government has all of the information of these young people. they know exactly where they are. if this administration is determined to send agents to people s homes in a round up fashion, they can certainly do that. so you can imagine for the dreamers for daca recipients, this is a very scary time. a lot of anxiety and fear and in congress, those of us in congress going to keep pushing to get this done. nbc news is reporting that reporting that federal investigators are probing
and everybody seems to think this is something that is going to get solved. now, those negotiations seem to be going by the wayside and falling apart. i m wondering if that s your view of where things stand right now. well, i m still optimistic that the congress can come to some kind of compromise on daca so that we can make sure that 800,000 young people who have only known the united states as their home are not subject to deportation. i m still optimistic about that. i think we have to be optimistic about it. i ve heard discussion about a border wall. but bear in mind, this is no longer a matter of convincing the american people to do something for the daca kids. 83% of americans support daca relief. it s a matter of convincing president trump and the republican majority in congress to listen to the american people and do the right thing. is there any circumstance under which democrats could accept a wall on the mexican border to pay for that wall in
border wall. but bear in mind, this is no longer a matter of convincing the american people to do something for the daca kids. 83% of americans support daca relief. it s a matter of convincing president trump and the republican majority in congress to listen to the american people and do the right thing. is there any circumstance under which democrats could accept a wall on the mexican border to pay for that wall in exchange for helping these kids or would you do you think that the government should shut down over that? well, i don t see i think that s going to be a very tough deal for the president to make. we don t want to trade the lives of 800,000 people for a wall across the united states and bear in mind also, again, that the majority of american people and the majority of people in texas, for example, did not support president trump s border wall. so we believe that this is an issue that is unto itself, that daca should be handled with a clean bill act and if there are