A White House gathering of sheriffs to discuss immigration will take place as Democrats accuse the president of subverting the Constitution
President Donald Trump plans to meet with a group of sheriffs at the White House on Thursday to discuss his administration’s plans on immigration — an event that comes as he prepares to make the issue a central focus of his fall legislative agenda and 2020 campaign, but also amid House Democrats’ launch of a formal impeachment inquiry against him.
A similar news conference held last year was attended by Rep. Steve King , who was recently rebuked by the Democrat-controlled House for a series of eyebrow-raising comments on race, and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. But some White House officials have pressured the president and Kushner to shelve immigration — an issue Trump’s base cares deeply about — until 2020, despite concerns that Democrats will be even less likely to work across the aisle in an election year and as an impeachment inquiry plays out.
“Your policies are not just. Your policies are cruel and evil,” he told a roomful of foreign leaders, referring to those who favor “open borders.” Last fall, the president surprised dozens of sheriffs, who had come to meet with Vice President Mike Pence and DHS officials, with an invite to join him in the East Room. After delivering brief remarks about immigration, Trump left the 30-plus law enforcement officials standing behind him as he fielded questions from reporters about a critical op-ed published in the New York Times by an anonymous official inside his administration.
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