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BY GRAHAM LANKTREE ON 9/5/17 AT 6:40 AM
Senior Congressional Republicans are willing to work with Democrats to keep a program allowing young people who came to America illegally with their parents to stay in the U.S. But Democrats will in return have to give President Donald Trump funding for his border wall.
Early Tuesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to announce an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that grants two-year U.S. work permits to 800,000 young illegal immigrants known as Dreamers.
President Trump said last Friday: We think the Dreamers are terrific, but by Sunday he decided to cancel the program with a six month grace period.
Ending the program means that young undocumented immigrantsnearly half of whom came to the U.S. before the age of sixcould be deported.
A number of Senior House Republican sources told Politico Monday that they are willing to make the DACA program law, but only in exchange for initial funding in 2018 for Trumps plan to build a border wall.
The DACA program could be made law through the bipartisan Dream Act already before Congress.
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Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And thanks for yet another issue to use on you in next year's election.
GOP ended it, GOP can figure out a fix on their own.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)$80 Billion for Dreamers....$80 for your wall.
ismnotwasm
(41,956 posts)Nobody but emotionally challenged bigots thinks a wall is anything but a giant waste of money. Fuck that.
eissa
(4,238 posts)I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists?
procon
(15,805 posts)Why should democrats bail them out when their members won't?
Initech
(100,029 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)They broke it they fix it.
spanone
(135,781 posts)Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)F'ing purists can kiss my ass. How did stopping those "extra" visa's go, purist ass clowns. Again, Obama and Clinton on the right side of history.
HAB911
(8,867 posts)nykym
(3,063 posts)no problem, we do DACA first then the wall.
Then once DACA is passed we reneg.