DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Senate will not consider an immigration bill as part of year-end legislation but will turn to a measure protecting immigrant youths known as ‘Dreamers’ in January, No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn said on Monday [12-18-17].
Cornyn also said that if Congress cannot meet an early March deadline for passing legislation providing the protections against deportation for undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally into the United States as children, President Donald Trump could consider extending the deadline.
In interviews over the past several days, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides said that talks on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been quietly making progress…
Tensions between Republicans and Democrats over the issue of legislative protections for Dreamers increased this fall after Trump took a hard line on the conditions for a deal.
An intense lobbying campaign has been underway to urge lawmakers to find a permanent legislative fix after the Republican president ended the DACA program in September. He gave Congress until early March to come up with a legislative replacement.”
-Richard Cowan, ” ‘Dreamer’ immigration bill not on U.S. Senate agenda this month,” Reuters, Dec. 18, 2017 02:34pm