Compromise

Trump offers immigration compromise to end partial shutdown
Dems cool to offer

President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration in an effort to end the nearly monthlong partial government shutdown -- although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a "non-starter" before Trump even spoke.

Trump announced that he was prepared to back a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 immigrants who came to the country illegally as children and were shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This, in exchange for the $5.7 billion he has requested for a barrier on the southern border with Mexico.

"Walls are not immoral," he said, adding that a wall "will save many lives and stop drugs from pouring into our country."

"This is not a concrete structure from sea to sea," he said, addressing some previously expressed concerns about the so-called "wall." "These are steel barriers in high-priority locations."

The offered deal would also extend protections for 300,000 recipients of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program -- which protects immigrants from designated countries with conditions that prevent nationals from returning safely.

"Our immigration system should be a source of pride, not a source of shame as it is all over the world," Trump said, before urging politicians to "take off their armor" and find solutions.

It would allocate $800 million for drug detection technology to secure ports of entry, 2,750 new border agents and law enforcement professionals, and 75 new immigration judges to reduce an immense backlog of asylum requests. (Fox News)

- Lord God, we come to You as the God of the Breakthrough, and we ask that this speech, and this new plan offered by our President would, indeed, provide the breakthrough needed to resolve the current crisis.

We pray that this country will unite against the blatant "theft of a nation" that illegal immigrants are striving to perpetuate. America's citizens, as citizens of every country in the world, deserve to be secure within their borders, to be confident that the taxes they pay are for the use of the people who paid them. We ask You, Lord, to Let Your will be done. In Your mighty name we pray, Jesus. Amen.

- "So David came to Baal-perazim and defeated them there; and he said, "The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters." Therefore he named that place Baal-perazim." (2 Samuel 5:20)