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Donald Trump is using Dreamers as a bargaining chip for funding a border wall

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President Donald Trump has been urged by some of his top aides to come to a compromise on his immigration strategy by pledging to protect the children of illegal immigrants brought into the U. S. in order to achieve broader gains in the future, including funds for his border wall. The children of illegal immigrants are known as Dreamers, under former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which “protects young people brought into the country illegally as children by their undocumented parents from deportation and allows them to obtain work permits, ” McClatchy. On the campaign trail, Trump railed against the idea of protecting Dreamers, but he has been urged to cut a deal with Congress and offer protection with the hopes of passing “legislation that pays for a border wall and more detention facilities, curbs legal immigration and implements E-verify, an online system that allows businesses to check immigration status, according to a half-dozen people familiar with situation, most involved with the negotiations, ” McClatchy reported. Among the White House officials talking to him are his daughter, Ivanka Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and both the former and current White House chiefs of staff Reince Priebus and John Kelly.

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