Donald Trump has called on Democrats to vote for his immigration reform to fix the ‘National Emergency” on the US’ border with Mexico, saying that migrants are being detained in record numbers to be repatriated.
In a string of tweets Friday morning, Trump again promised a crack down on illegal immigration, announcing that serious measures were already being taken by border patrol to curb the crisis.
In a change of pace, Trump also claimed that Democrats now recognize that there is a “national emergency” at the border, and that there is a “good chance” they will help take action on the issue ahead of elections.
Senator Lindsey Graham, however, didn’t agree that the president’s plan was composed in a bipartisan spirit, but rather “to unify the Republican Party around border security.”
Trump’s opponents were not impressed with the proposal, and have warned that the measure has little to no chance of passing in the Democrat majority House.