For Deal on Dreamers, White House Will Demand Crackdown on Child Border Crossers

[Loyd]

Source: New York Times

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR OCT. 8, 2017

WASHINGTON The White House will demand this week that lawmakers harden the border against thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America before President Trump will agree to any deal with Democrats that allows the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers to stay in the United States legally.

Administration officials said Sunday that Mr. Trump would seek to slam shut what they described as loopholes that encouraged parents from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send their children illegally into the United States, where many of them melt into American communities and become undocumented immigrants.

The demand is included in a list of legislative priorities for tougher immigration enforcement that Mr. Trump and his advisers were set to release on Sunday as they seek to establish their bargaining position in expected congressional negotiations later this year about the Dreamers, who were brought to the United States as small children and often have few ties to the countries of their birth.

Last month, the president abruptly ended an Obama-era policy called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, in which former President Barack Obama had used his executive authority to protect about 800,000 of the young immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide them legal work permits. If a deal is not reached by March, tens of thousands of the Dreamers will begin losing permission to work and protection from deportation.


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If only we could pass a law against children becoming POTUS.

[mobeau69]

1. Schumer and Pelosi

already said f this shit according to CNN.

[hay rick]

2. Trump wants to use the Dreamers as hostages.

The only surprise to me is I expected him to use them as hostages to get tax cuts for the rich.

[msongs]

3. public opinion supports dreamers. tell racist trumpers to cram it nt

[Leghorn21]

4. From Feb. 2016:

“I can look in their face and tell them they can’t come here,” Mr Trump responded to applause.

Same asshole, different children.

No surprise here, eh?