Ann Coulter is not in favor of the immigration offer President Trump put on the table Saturday.
The conservative author and pundit took to Twitter as President Trump outlined his offer on immigration in an effort to end the historic partial government shutdown, panning it and the president.
“Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” she tweeted, referring to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who advocated a path to citizenship for immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children during his 2016 bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 19, 2019
Trump proposed a three-year extension of protections from deportation for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as well as protections for those with Temporary Protected Status, which is extended to people from certain countries facing conflict or national disasters. Trump did not outline a path to citizenship or amnesty for either group.
In return, Trump asked for $5.7 billion for a physical barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border that would build an additional 230 miles of a bollard-style barrier of steel slats along with the 115 miles already in process, not a full-length concrete barrier.
Coulter mocked his concession in another tweet: “So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall.”
100 miles of border wall in exchange for amnestying millions of illegals. So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 19, 2019
Estimates put illegal immigrants in the U.S. at about 11.4 million people. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the total U.S. population at 328 million people.
Coulter, who has long maintained Trump needs to build a wall, has been pointed to as one of the factors behind Trump’s scuttling of a December deal on appropriations backed by Senate Republicans that would have prevented the shutdown.
The partial government shutdown, which entered its fifth week Saturday, has more than 800,000 federal employees without a paycheck while either furloughed or still working as essential employees.
