these young people with heart, with compassion. i know that the president of the united states does not think that these young people should leave the country. so, yes, those are fringe elements. how do you know that, congressman? have you had conversations with the president about the rack act, your bill you re using to propose these dreamers? have you talked to the white house about this? i have spoken with various administration officials and here s the bottom line. the president, as soon as he took office, could have rescinded this order. he decided to keep it in place and is only acting now because these states are threatening a lawsuit. general kelly, president s chief of staff when he was the secretary of homeland security specifically went to congress to ask for a legislative solution for these dreamers. so, the administration, i think, is actually in an okay place. obviously, i would prefer keeping this order in place until congress reaches a
i think it s different for a couple reasons. we have to deal with all reform. we need to top-to-bottom approach. that starts with, what should be the easiest in dealing with our dreamers, having a plan, which we have in the house. we have a separate one in the senate. the two are close together. both are garnering bipartisan support. the rack act as well as the bridge act in the senate, both are bipartisan. do you think you have the votes? do you think you have the votes? do you think you have enough? are the numbers there this time that weren t there in 2010? i believe so. i ll use my enlist act as an example. itis got the highest number of c authors and majority to majority. there s a broad erbil with the rack act and bridge act.
the rack act requires undocumented adults to came to u.s. as minors to be employed pursue higher education or serve in the military. now, franco there are a lot of people who will say that s unfair, unduly rigorous, but at least it sounds like a solution as opposed to the elimination of daca. in fairness the president is facing deadlines after which some states are going to sue him if he doesn t rescind daca. essentially what tillis is doing and other republican members of congress are trying to do is essentially give trump a bit of a life raft for daca. as we mentioned before this has been very difficult for trump. he is torn between trying to serve his base but also a larger electorate, not only that kind of his own moral feelings. obviously this is something that hurt him, impacted him personally. the legislation that tillis is offering is something that would
probably going to land somewhere between the bridge, which mike coffman is pushing on a bipartisan basis, and then one by carlos cabella called the rack act, which is responding to america s children. what these do is push the bill a little bit further, the daca act, if you will, and then gives time for these kids to either get in line for a permanent residency or possibly for citizenship down the road. and when paul ryan comes out against it, yet he comes out against letting it lapse yet he s the speaker of the house who can control the lejs laifgi calendar, i think what president trump has the ability to say is but would you rule out the possibility that the program could end and then you have 800,000 people under protection of this program who are going to have visas expiring, and then