MORNING GLORY: Trump can end the Dreamer standoff by taking on sanctuary cities
Hugh Hewitt provides analysis of Tom Homan's communication style regarding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis after the border czar answered questions from the press amid tensions over ICE tactics.
Is there a path emerging for the "Dreamers" to finally receive legal status? Could a "regularization" of this group of more than 3 million illegal immigrants be near?
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., whom I interviewed on my radio show Wednesday, did not sound overly optimistic about passing the final FY 2026 appropriations bill — the one that funds the Department of Homeland Security — but he also did not rule out including "regularization" for the "Dreamers," provided the same bill includes a funding knockout for "sanctuary cities and states."
President Donald Trump, Thune noted, has long been open to regularizing the status of the Dreamers. If congressional Democrats want to actually accomplish something with their latest funding stunt, they should ask for legal status for the Dreamers while being prepared to apply pressure to sanctuary cities.
On Tuesday, I argued for just such a deal on this platform — a "Nixon-to-China" compromise that President Trump could pull off, and that no other Republican would dare to attempt, much less succeed in executing.
STEPHEN COLBERT CHEERS ON ALEX PADILLA’S BILL THAT WOULD MAKE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CITIZENS
The president showed the way with his "First Step Act" criminal justice reform law during his first term. Now he could again lead — this time to secure long-desired "regularization" for the Dreamers — reflecting a view shared by the vast majority of Americans: Illegal immigrants brought here as minors should not be deported to countries of origin, if those countries........
