(The Washington Post) — “Some lawmakers have complained that the president has vacillated between signaling he was supportive of a deal only to pullback after speaking with aides or immigration hardliners.”
President Trump’s immigration proposal to Congress will include a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants, White House officials said Thursday, more than twice the number of “dreamers” who were enrolled in a deferred action program Trump terminated last fall.
The figure represents a significant concession to Democrats but is likely to produce sharp blowback among conservative Republicans, even as the White House cast the move as one piece of an immigration framework that would significantly tighten border control laws.
Click to continue reading. By David Nakamura – Jan 25, 2018.