Pelosi, Schumer Make Deal To Protect DACA Immigrants In Exchange For Increased Border Security
Democrats get DACA fix in new deal with Trump.
Democratic leaders Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced an agreement with President Trump to fix DACA following a Wednesday night meeting.
The deal, according to a statement from the Democratic leaders, would make the protections of DACA into law in exchange for increased border security, but not a wall.
In a statement issued after their White House dinner, Schumer and Pelosi said they had “agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides.”
According to CNN, the bipartisan DREAM Act would be part of the arrangement, a person briefed on the meeting said.”
The deal, if it holds, would deprive Trump of his key campaign promise of building a wall.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which was established by President Obama gave legal protections to people who were brought to the United States as children without documentation. The Trump administration announced last week it would cancel the DACA program in six months, putting 800,000 young Americans at risk of deportation.
