Pelosi and Schumer were speaking for the cameras and their base, they weren't even trying to negotiate. And when they realized they were looking like obstructionist fools, they begged Trump to make the meeting private without the cameras, so they could stop damaging themselves on camera.

Meeting between President Trump, Rep. Pelosi, and Sen. Schumer




Schumer in 2009 (along with many other Democrats) was saying we "can't treat these people the same way we treat legal immigrants", that we can't allow them to come in, we have to secure our borders. Now Schumer and Pelosi support sanctuary cities. If you support sanctuary cities, you can't even pretend you want to secure the border. It's one or the other.

And 54% of the country supports Trump's position, not Schumer and Pelosi's.