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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press about the $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress early Friday, with Vice President Mike Pence (L), in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on March 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. After threatening to veto the legislation earlier today, President Trump announced he had signed the bill, avoiding a government shutdown. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Giving credence to those arguing his veto threat was either an impulsive "bluff" or a "temper tantrum," President Donald Trump signed the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Friday afternoon, but immigrant rights groups and Dreamers were not even a little bit fooled that the president's bloviating and political head-fake had anything to do with protecting them.
"If Trump truly cared about a solution, he would push for a permanent solution and wouldn't have killed all bipartisan proposals," Paul Quinonez, an undocumented resident of Washington state and a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA), toldAl Jazeera in the wake of Trump's veto threat.
Already approved by the House, the U.S. Senate rammed through the spending bill overnight, but on Friday morning Trump took to Twitter to say that despite the threat of a government shutdown if he failed to sign it by midnight, he was considering a veto.
\u201cI am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1521809715
Within hours Trump proved his veto threat was exactly that when he signed the spending bill at the White House, but Quinonez wasn't alone in calling bullshit on the way the president tried to frame the DACA issue in the context of the omnibus.
As Dara Lind writes at Vox, the "only thing more insulting than using DACA as a fig leaf for a veto threat was the fact that everyone knew he'd back down anyway."
Immigrants rights advocates were extremely unimpressed:
\u201cSays the man who ended #DACA and started this mess https://t.co/zbBqW0gm5N\u201d— New York Immigration Coalition (@New York Immigration Coalition) 1521815209
\u201cEnough with the crocodile tears. If Trump really cared about #Dreamers, he wouldn\u2019t have ended #DACA in the first place and obstructed every bipartisan effort to protect them. https://t.co/c65GTGD2Uu\u201d— Raul M. Grijalva (@Raul M. Grijalva) 1521816768
\u201cREMINDER \u27a1\ufe0f Trump torpedoed every legislative effort to protect #Dreamers AND put them in danger in the first place by terminating #DACA.\n\n@HispanicCaucus Members respond \u2b07\ufe0f\u201d— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (@Congressional Hispanic Caucus) 1521818148
\u201c\u274c YOU ended DACA and created chaos for 800,000 #Dreamers. \n\u274c YOU rejected multiple bipartisan bills to #ProtectDreamers \n\nYOU were never serious about a permanent solution \u2014 not yesterday, not today. https://t.co/sq1oXV5yih\u201d— National Immigration Law Center (@National Immigration Law Center) 1521814638
Giving credence to those arguing his veto threat was either an impulsive "bluff" or a "temper tantrum," President Donald Trump signed the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Friday afternoon, but immigrant rights groups and Dreamers were not even a little bit fooled that the president's bloviating and political head-fake had anything to do with protecting them.
"If Trump truly cared about a solution, he would push for a permanent solution and wouldn't have killed all bipartisan proposals," Paul Quinonez, an undocumented resident of Washington state and a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA), toldAl Jazeera in the wake of Trump's veto threat.
Already approved by the House, the U.S. Senate rammed through the spending bill overnight, but on Friday morning Trump took to Twitter to say that despite the threat of a government shutdown if he failed to sign it by midnight, he was considering a veto.
\u201cI am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1521809715
Within hours Trump proved his veto threat was exactly that when he signed the spending bill at the White House, but Quinonez wasn't alone in calling bullshit on the way the president tried to frame the DACA issue in the context of the omnibus.
As Dara Lind writes at Vox, the "only thing more insulting than using DACA as a fig leaf for a veto threat was the fact that everyone knew he'd back down anyway."
Immigrants rights advocates were extremely unimpressed:
\u201cSays the man who ended #DACA and started this mess https://t.co/zbBqW0gm5N\u201d— New York Immigration Coalition (@New York Immigration Coalition) 1521815209
\u201cEnough with the crocodile tears. If Trump really cared about #Dreamers, he wouldn\u2019t have ended #DACA in the first place and obstructed every bipartisan effort to protect them. https://t.co/c65GTGD2Uu\u201d— Raul M. Grijalva (@Raul M. Grijalva) 1521816768
\u201cREMINDER \u27a1\ufe0f Trump torpedoed every legislative effort to protect #Dreamers AND put them in danger in the first place by terminating #DACA.\n\n@HispanicCaucus Members respond \u2b07\ufe0f\u201d— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (@Congressional Hispanic Caucus) 1521818148
\u201c\u274c YOU ended DACA and created chaos for 800,000 #Dreamers. \n\u274c YOU rejected multiple bipartisan bills to #ProtectDreamers \n\nYOU were never serious about a permanent solution \u2014 not yesterday, not today. https://t.co/sq1oXV5yih\u201d— National Immigration Law Center (@National Immigration Law Center) 1521814638
Giving credence to those arguing his veto threat was either an impulsive "bluff" or a "temper tantrum," President Donald Trump signed the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Friday afternoon, but immigrant rights groups and Dreamers were not even a little bit fooled that the president's bloviating and political head-fake had anything to do with protecting them.
"If Trump truly cared about a solution, he would push for a permanent solution and wouldn't have killed all bipartisan proposals," Paul Quinonez, an undocumented resident of Washington state and a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA), toldAl Jazeera in the wake of Trump's veto threat.
Already approved by the House, the U.S. Senate rammed through the spending bill overnight, but on Friday morning Trump took to Twitter to say that despite the threat of a government shutdown if he failed to sign it by midnight, he was considering a veto.
\u201cI am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1521809715
Within hours Trump proved his veto threat was exactly that when he signed the spending bill at the White House, but Quinonez wasn't alone in calling bullshit on the way the president tried to frame the DACA issue in the context of the omnibus.
As Dara Lind writes at Vox, the "only thing more insulting than using DACA as a fig leaf for a veto threat was the fact that everyone knew he'd back down anyway."
Immigrants rights advocates were extremely unimpressed:
\u201cSays the man who ended #DACA and started this mess https://t.co/zbBqW0gm5N\u201d— New York Immigration Coalition (@New York Immigration Coalition) 1521815209
\u201cEnough with the crocodile tears. If Trump really cared about #Dreamers, he wouldn\u2019t have ended #DACA in the first place and obstructed every bipartisan effort to protect them. https://t.co/c65GTGD2Uu\u201d— Raul M. Grijalva (@Raul M. Grijalva) 1521816768
\u201cREMINDER \u27a1\ufe0f Trump torpedoed every legislative effort to protect #Dreamers AND put them in danger in the first place by terminating #DACA.\n\n@HispanicCaucus Members respond \u2b07\ufe0f\u201d— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (@Congressional Hispanic Caucus) 1521818148
\u201c\u274c YOU ended DACA and created chaos for 800,000 #Dreamers. \n\u274c YOU rejected multiple bipartisan bills to #ProtectDreamers \n\nYOU were never serious about a permanent solution \u2014 not yesterday, not today. https://t.co/sq1oXV5yih\u201d— National Immigration Law Center (@National Immigration Law Center) 1521814638
