President Donald Trump proposes DACA,TPS extensions in exchange for wall funding

President Donald Trump announcing today that he will extend Daca protections if $5.7 billion dollars for a border wall is approved.

The president said that he will offer three years of legislative relief for “700,000 DACA recipients who were unlawfully brought to the United States by their parents many years ago.”

President Trump also said he will offer three years of protection for the 300,000 migrants that are facing deportations.

President Trump said his offer was “based on input from Border Agents and Homeland Security professionals.” He said, “it (the offer) is a compassionate response to the ongoing tragedy on our southern border.”

The President said “It is a common sense compromise both sides should embrace. The radical left should never control our border, I will never let it happen..”

The President said he would spend:

$800 million on urgent humanitarian assistance and $805 million on drug technology to secure the Points of Entry.

The President promised to add 2,750 additional Border Agents and law enforcement professionals at the southern border, and also add 75 new immigration judges to help reduce the court backlog of over 900,000 immigration cases.

With the $5.7 billion, he would build “Strategic deployments for physical barriers or a wall.”

The President said if America builds the wall “the crime rate and drug problem will be quickly and greatly reduced in The United States.”

Democratic leaders have said the plan is no go. El Paso’s representative, Veronica Escobar, said the proposal is not negotiable.

Escobar said the president is offering solutions to problems he’s made himself.

The proposal is not acceptable for House democrats, Veronica Escobar said Saturday. As to a temporary reprieve for DACA in exchange for the wall, she said the offers simply don’t match.

“He made it very clear, it’s a three year fix, walls are permanent,” Escobar said.

One of Representative Escobar’s arguments is that the president’s proposed border barrier will not actually do anything to stop the surge of asylum seekers at the border.

Just minutes after ABC-7 spoke to the representative, our crew saw a group walking along the embankment toward the east where some border patrol agents were stationed earlier.

“The border is many yards south of the wall. The minute asylum seekers cross the river and set foot on American soil, that’s it. They are legally able to request asylum protection,” Escobar said.

In the end, escobar said the border security issue deserves it’s own debate, they shouldn’t be part of the funding arguments fueling the government shutdown.

“There are other things I would be willing to consider as well, but negotiations take time and they happen in a democratic process,” she said.

“If we acquiesce now and give in to what is essentially a hostage situation, in April we are going to have a debate about the debt ceiling. The president can shut down the government in April again.”

Congress will be back in Session on Tuesday. Hours are due for federal employees Sunday. The next federal paycheck is Friday.