This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, January 26, 2019. I'm Caleb Brown.

The so-called compromise measure offered by the White House to end the government shutdown

was in fact not a compromise at all. That from Cato Institute

Immigration Policy analyst David Beer. The plan the White House put on the table

would have in essence shrunk the number of young people eligible for delayed action on

deportation. We spoke yesterday.

Two measures that were aimed at ending the government shutdown was called a compromise by

Mitch McConnell and the president both were voted down

uh... what was in them in terms of immigration?

Well, the Trump plan or Senator McConnell plan had several immigration provisions, obviously top on the president's list was $5.7 billion for

border wall or border fencing, that would cover about 234 miles of the border.

You're talking about a cost of about 24 million dollars per mile of the border covered in border fencing.

And the second thing that it has in there is provisions that would provide legal status for

some dreamers who were brought to the United States as children. This status would

essentially replace the existing DACA program.

That portion of the bill was sort of pitched to Democrats as we're going to be extending the DACA program in exchange for

border wall money. But the reality is that the bill makes numerous changes to that program in an effort to make it much smaller than the existing DACA program to exclude many immigrants in various situations that,

you know, for example, it has a minimum income threshold to apply for the program so you'd have to prove that you make

more than 125% of the poverty line the only exception is for people who are students.

Everyone else obviously would have to make above that threshold that's not part of the current DACA program.

And there are numerous other restrictions.

There's a fine that they're imposing on the dreamers of $500.

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