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Trump & Democrats Spar On Immigration Reform
Topic Started: Oct 8 2017, 08:46 PM (20 Views)
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Reuters: Democrats Rule Out Trump's Funding Of Border Wall In Exchange For Helping Dreamers
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats rejected President Donald Trump’s requests on Sunday that renewed protection for “Dreamers” - people brought illegally to the United States as children - include funding for a border wall and money for thousands more immigration officers.

“We told the President at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures alongside the DREAM Act, but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable. This proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise,” the two top congressional Democrats - Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi - said in a joint statement.

“The list includes the wall, which was explicitly ruled out of the negotiations,” they added.
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The Trump administration has demanded that lawmakers fund a wall along the southern border and crackdown on Central American migrant children as part of a deal to allow Dreamers – the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children – to stay in the country legally.

The demands, which were sent to lawmakers on Sunday, called for limiting family-based green cards to spouses and the minor children of US citizens and lawful permanent residents and creating a point-based system.

Democrats immediately rejected the list of hardline immigration priorities as “far beyond what is reasonable”. Congressional Democratic leaders had previously been optimistic about striking a deal with the president that would protect the young immigrants.

Trump last month announced plans to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program established by the Obama administration that shielded young people from deportation and allowed them to work on renewable two-year permits.
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--Here is a White House release on 'immigration policy priorities' (Nida Khan, 8 Oct. 2017)
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