DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two U.S. senators unveiled a bipartisan compromise on immigration on Monday [2-5-18] that would protect young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children and would also boost security on the Mexican border.
But President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the plan immediately, saying any deal should provide funding for his long-promised Mexican border wall, and blaming Democrats for the impasse over immigration.
The proposal by John McCain, a Republican, and Chris Coons, a Democrat, is narrower in scope than a plan Trump put forward last month, which was resisted by both hardline Republicans and Democrats.
It does not offer a sweeping overhaul of the immigration system and does not include funding for the wall, but calls for a way for Dreamers to avoid deportation and earn citizenship, while also bolstering border security. The legislation would rely on a variety of tools, not just a physical wall, for securing the southern U.S. border…
The Dreamers were previously protected from deportation under Democratic former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.”
-Richard Cowan and Susan Heavey, “Two U.S. senators unveil bipartisan immigration plan,” Reuters, Feb. 5, 2018 07:33am