As Trump noted, the proposal would include legislative relief for 700,000 young immigrants brought here illegally as children — a.k.a. The proposal on the dreamers was whittled down to the point where it only undoes the disaster Trump himself is orchestrating. Plus, the program actually caps the total who can be annually granted asylum at 15,000. This is nothing remotely like a compromise offerThere is no way this offer represents a compromise, if we conventionally understand a “compromise” to be an agreement in which both sides secure meaningful concessions. Read more:James Downie: Mike Pence’s empty wordsJennifer Rubin: Here’s an alternative to Trump’s extortionWatch the new Post Opinions short-doc:

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2019 15:21 UTC