12-18-2018 Democratic officials are growing frustrated with their GOP colleagues. “They don’t seem to understand just how firmly we will reject this wall. They ran an election on the wall and they lost,” one senior Democratic aide said. “This is not an area where we will compromise.” http://time.com/5482615/republicans-blame-trump-government-shutdown/
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comment to the above:
There were 2 elections—one in 2016, one in 2018. The Republicans did very well in 2016 and moderately well in 2018, though Democrats gained the House majority.
As to why the Democrats are so against the wall, could it have to do with acquiring more votes for their policies from Latin Americans who get into the USA?
More and more, it seems to me, the focus is on money, money-spending though the national debt keeps growing dangerously, and less and less emphasis on the four-part foundation of government that includes 3 other pillars besides treasury: a) understanding/good counsel, b) justice, and c) faith in and steadfast commitment to the greater good in the USA and its fiery destiny under Providence. -r, mt. shasta
More details on this “wall” issue follow, especially the detail of allowing undocumented immigrants to get a CA driver’s license and then vote in all elections if they wish:
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The partial shutdown started early Saturday amid a standoff over Trump’s request for $5 billion for the wall. Democrats have refused and are offering to keep funding at existing levels, $1.3 billion, for border security, but not the wall. …A recent Quinnipiac University poll finds that 43 percent of registered voters support building the wall and 54 percent oppose it. https://www.blufftontoday.com/ZZ/news/20181222/latest-senate-adjourns-until-next-week-no-border-deal
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12-21-18 After Trump made it clear he wouldn’t sign a bill that didn’t give him $5 billion, House Republicans hastily passed a bill (but they lose their majority starting in latter Jan. 2019) that gave Trump even more than that — without the usual strings attached about where and what he was allowed to build with it. But the House bill is a nonstarter in the Senate, where it needs bipartisan support to reach the Senate’s 60 vote threshold, and Senate Republicans are unwilling to blow up the filibuster as Trump is urging to pass the bill with only Republican votes….
Ultimately, the Trump administration wants to build hundreds of miles of border barriers — a lot more than $5 billion can provide. But it has identified particular stretches of the border as top priorities, and a $5 billion appropriation would allow it to blast through several of them.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that if it got the whole $5 billion Trump has made his red line for wall funding, it would be able to build 215 miles’ worth of barriers along the US-Mexico border. Most of this — about 150 miles — would be built where no physical barriers currently exist; the rest would be intended to replace some of the older and less imposing barriers along the border….
The administration’s top priority is building about 104 miles of barriers in the Rio Grande Valley — which has become by far the most common area for Central American families to cross between ports of entry (i.e. illegally). Pretty much all of that would be new barriers, since pre-Trump there weren’t many man-made barriers along the existing natural barrier of the Rio Grande. With the rest of the money it would want to build (in order of priority) 27 miles of barriers in the Yuma sector in Arizona; 14 miles in the El Centro sector in eastern California; and 55 miles of barriers in the Laredo sector in western Texas. It would round out the $5B with five miles in the San Diego sector, and nine miles in the El Paso sector (far west Texas and New Mexico). https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/21/18151974/border-wall-trump-steel-slats-shutdown
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The Migration Policy Institute has estimated that 820,000 of the 11 million unauthorized have been convicted of a crime. About 300,000, or less than 3 percent of the 11 million undocumented, have committed felonies. (The proportion of felons in the overall population was an estimated 6 percent in 2010, according to a paper presented to the Population Association of America.)…
in a break from the Obama administration the new policies also take aim at immigrants whose offenses are limited to living here without permission or minor crimes that enable immigrants to work here, like driving without a license or using a fake Social Security number.
The Social Security Administration estimated that in 2010, 1.8 million undocumented immigrants worked under a number that did not match their name. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/06/us/politics/undocumented-illegal-immigrants.html
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As of May 2017, twelve states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Vermont, and Washington), the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have laws in their books that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license or some type of driving permit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_licenses_for_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States
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More than one million undocumented immigrants living in California have received driver’s licenses, according to a new report.
The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles announced that as of March 31, 1,001,000 undocumented immigrants have received licenses, The Sacramento Bee reported on Wednesday.
Undocumented immigrants have been legally allowed to obtain driver’s licenses in the state since Jan. 1, 2015 after Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 60, “The Safe and Responsible Drivers Act,” into law. https://nypost.com/2018/04/05/california-gave-drivers-licenses-to-1-million-illegal-immigrants/
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CALIFORNIA VOTER ID INFORMATION
Requirement for voter registration: Current driver’s license number OR
Last 4 digits of social security number https://www.voteriders.org/ufaqs/california-voter-id-information/
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