(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at a press conference yesterday at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights that when she and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with President Donald Trump for dinner at the White House last month they told him they had shared values with him.
“We said we had shared values when we spoke with him,” Pelosi said, according to the videotape of the press conference posted on her Facebook page.
Pelosi was explaining why she “trusts” President Trump to follow through and legalize the “DREAMers,” who came to the United States illegally when they were minors.
“Now, just a word about the president and the heartless act that he committed when he rescinded the DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals],” Pelosi said. “I have confidence that he believes in the DREAMers. He told us that. We said we had shared values when we spoke with him, Leader Schumer and the three of us speaking together on this. So I trust he will honor that commitment because the American people want him to do so.”
On Sept. 5, the Trump administration announced that it was rescinding President Obama’s DACA policy, which allowed illegal aliens who had arrived as minors to stay in the United States, but that the cancellation of the policy would not take effect for six months—during which time Congress could work on legislation to deal with the issue.
On Sept. 13, Pelosi and Schumer had dinner with Trump at the White House. When the Democratic leaders emerged from the meeting they put out a joint statement.
“We had a very productive meeting at the White House with the President,” said Pelosi and Schumer. “The discussion focused on DACA. We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides.”
Later at Wednesday’s press briefing in Los Angeles, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D.-Calif.), made clear that he did not trust President Trump.
“Somebody had mentioned about trust and the president,” Gomez said. “I don’t trust the president, but what do you want us to do, walk away? No we’re not going to walk away, right.
“Even if you follow another president: Trust but verify,” said Gomez. “The trust is that when we put a bill on his desk, that’s the trust part. The verification part is if he signs it or not and it will be up to President Trump to determine if he is going to deny DREAMers and DACA recipients, not once but twice, that access to the American dream. That’s what it’s about.”
Pelosi then chimed into say that the Democrats will see what Trump does toward legalizing the DREAMers as a “test of trust” for Trump.
“We see this as a test of trust, because we have said we’re disappointed in a number of things he has done since he was president, but one place that we can find common ground that would be a threshold for us to talk about other issues is this,” Pelosi said.
“This isn’t an issue for us, it’s a value, it’s an ethic. It’s who we are as a nation and we can’t change that,” she said. “So, is he willing to join us in this and, if so, we have some other things to talk about.”
(First reported by CNS News) https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/pelosi-her-schumer-and-trump-we-said-we-had-shared-values-when-we (October 20, 2017)
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