DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump worked Wednesday [9-13-17] to find an agreement on legislation legalizing undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, pitching the issue at a bipartisan White House meeting and inviting the Capitol’s top two Democrats to dinner to plot strategy.
The overtures have conservatives worried that the president will agree to a plan without strong immigration enforcement that Republicans favor, particularly since congressional GOP leaders weren’t invited to the dinner.
In response to those concerns, Mr. Trump said he was hoping for a bipartisan deal and planned to continue talking…
Mr. Trump raised the issue at a White House meeting on Wednesday with lawmakers from both parties that had been billed as a discussion on taxes, and it was the primary item on the agenda for the dinner with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.)…
The issue has taken on urgency since last week, when the president set an end date for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. In March, its 690,000 participants will begin to lose their protections from deportation and work permits.”
-Laura Meckler and Byron Tau, “Trump Looks For Bipartisan Deal on DACA,” The Wall Street Journal online, Sept. 13, 2017