The Hill to Die On by Jake Sherman & Anna Palmer

Author:Jake Sherman & Anna Palmer [Sherman, Jake & Palmer, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

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That week conservative Republicans went into a closed party meeting in the Capitol and urged leaders to adopt a hard-line proposal penned by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chair of the House Judiciary Committee. The Goodlatte bill was tough stuff. It eliminated the diversity visa program, which allowed migration from underrepresented countries. It shrank the number of overall immigrants let into America, including on visas issued to family members. It created an system to electronically verify immigration status for employment purposes. It boosted border security, per Trump’s request. And it sought to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, areas that ignored federal immigration law. Even Republican leaders thought the Goodlatte bill was a poison pill, a piece of legislation so politically toxic that it would get something south of one hundred votes and could never pass the Senate.

As the immigration talks proceeded haltingly, the president, surprising no one in Congress, stuck his foot in his mouth.

On January 12, the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey broke the news that Trump had told a few lawmakers he didn’t exactly appreciate some of America’s immigrants. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump was quoted as saying in Dawsey’s piece, referring to migrants from “Haiti, El Salvador and African countries.”

That all but ended any immediate prospect for an immigration deal. Democrats couldn’t even negotiate with someone who spoke like that.

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