A wall, once built, is impossible to remove. Politically impossible to prevent the second companies start bidding on contracts Whatever Trump does on the illegals enrolled in college will be at most deferral Dems would be crazy to cut a deal with Trump on this, tbh
If you agree to the wall you can then get court orders to prevent them from putting it out to bid, sure... but the point is, there's a point of no return, and when we reach that Trump can reconsider on these illegal students
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it's going to be a war of attrition. GOP has majority ofc, but many (possibly most?) GOP senators want cheap labor so possibilities are: (a) horsetrading to gain GOPe support, (b) threaten Rust Belt dems enough for populist coalition, (c) roll the dice in 2018 and 2020
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(i've seen people suggest he do it with executive order, but idk about feasibility and also it would be easy to delegitimize, sort of a hail-mary)
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