Tag: Invective

In a series of characteristically aggressive tweets on Sunday morning, the president announced that a deal to secure status for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (Daca) recipients was “NO MORE”; threatened once again to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with Mexico and Canada; and called on congressional Republicans to force through a vote on tougher immigration law. Trump's border wall: US military is as unlikely to pay for it as Mexico Read more In his first public appearance with his wife Melania since CBS broadcast an interview with an actor in adult films who says she had an affair with him in 2006, Trump attended an Easter service at a church close to his exclusive members club in southern Florida. Getting more dangerous. Trump has previously been open to negotiating with congressional Democrats to protect recipients of protection from deportation under Daca, an Obama-era program that Trump abruptly ended last year. In exchange, the president has called for funding to build a wall on the southern border between the US and Mexico, along with other hardline immigration measures. This week he hinted that perhaps the Department of Defense could pay for the wall. In calling on Republican leaders in the Senate to “go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW”, the president was referring to Senate rules that require 60 votes for legislation to pass. Speaking to reporters briefly outside the church in Florida, Trump said Democrats “blew it” on Daca and called on Mexico to ramp up immigration enforcement. “Mexico has got to help us at the border,” he said. “If they’re not going to help us at the border, it’s a very sad thing between our two countries.” He also claimed: “a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of Daca, and we’re going to have to really see.” On Twitter, the president had accused Mexico of laughing “at our dumb immigration laws”, adding: “They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA.