Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez
Luis Vicente GutierrezEverything can’t always be about Trump Listen: Capitol Hill vet goes behind GOP tax plan, and today's latest news Dems under pressure to deliver for Dreamers MORE (Ill.) said Thursday that he doubts President Trump
Donald John TrumpTrump: If there's no wall, there's no DACA fix Trump appears to call out Samsung over missing FBI text messages Trump Commerce pick told lawmakers he would look at reversing Obama move on internet oversight: report MORE will follow through on his administration's new plan to offer a pathway to citizenship for over 1 million young immigrants.
"President can't be trusted to keep his word or maintain his position for more than a couple of hours," Gutierrez tweeted.
"Every time hardliners inside and outside White House shift his position, we get farther from a deal to serve the will the American people to give Dreamers a way to live here legally."
President can't be trusted to keep his word or maintain his position for more than a couple of hours. Every time hardliners inside & outside White House shift his position, we get farther from deal to serve the will of the Am. people: to give Dreamers a way to live here legally. https://t.co/VhrbUfraza
— Luis V. Gutierrez (@RepGutierrez) January 25, 2018
In other tweets, Gutierrez called the White House framework a "ransom" for Dreamers and said "it would be far cheaper to erect a 50-foot concrete statue of a middle finger and point it towards Latin America."
$25 billion as ransom for Dreamers with cuts to legal immigration and increases to deportations doesn’t pass the laugh test. #twill #heretostay #chicago #DreamActNow
— Luis V. Gutierrez (@RepGutierrez) January 25, 2018
It would be far cheaper to erect a 50-foot concrete statue of a middle finger and point it towards Latin America. Both a wall and the statue would be equally offensive and equally ineffective and both would express Trump’s deeply held suspicion of Latinos. https://t.co/R8g4iRHzYX
— Luis V. Gutierrez (@RepGutierrez) January 25, 2018
Senior administration officials said Thursday that the White House will hand the Senate a proposal to allow up to 1.8 million young immigrants a path to U.S. citizenship.
Officials who described the plan framed it as Congress's best chance to get a legislative fix for the estimated 690,000 young undocumented immigrants affected by Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Trump had slammed Senate Democrats for forcing a three-day government shutdown last weekend because a short-term funding bill did not include a legislative fix for DACA recipients.
The president previously said this week that he would be open to a plan for the "Dreamers" but would push forward on comprehensive immigration reform.
Trump's plan would allow young immigrants to enter a process for citizenship that could take between 10-12 years. In exchange, Trump is seeking $25 billion to fund his long-promised border wall with Mexico and heighten border security.
Gutierrez said last week that he was ready to give Trump the border wall if he allowed for new legal protections for the "Dreamers," and that he would even help build it.
While Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer
Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerTrump: If there's no wall, there's no DACA fix Chuck Schumer’s deal with the devil Americans are catching on to Dems' tax bill smear campaign MORE (D-N.Y.) originally offered border wall funding as part of a last-ditch plan to keep the government open last week, he later said that the funding was "off the table."