A demonstrator holds up a protest sign depicting the Statue of Liberty embracing an immigrant outside the United States Capitol as Congress tries to avoid a government shutdown in 2018. (Alex Edelman / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images)
The government opens, concluding this brawl. The fate of the Dreamers is tied to The Wall. This offer by Trump is that he would arrange What simply amounts to a hostage exchange. The federal workers, about whom we’ve read, Are freed, and the Dreamers are taken instead.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”