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Trump Plays Nice with Dems on DACA Negotiations

<p>President Trump has decided to give in to Democrats&rsquo&semi; demands that he legalize the Dreamers &ndash&semi; hundreds of thousands of young illegals who applied for protections under DACA&nbsp&semi;&lpar;Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump recently announced he would be ending the Obama-era policy with a six-month grace period designed to give Congress a chance to figure out what to do about current DACA recipients&period; He defended DACA recipients on Twitter&comma; calling them&comma; &ldquo&semi;good&comma; educated and accomplished young people&rdquo&semi; who &ldquo&semi;have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump is now working with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer &lpar;D-NY&rpar; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi &lpar;D-CA&rpar; on a deal he promises will not include the border wall&period; He has promised that key GOP lawmakers are &ldquo&semi;very much on board&rdquo&semi; with the plan&comma; but more than a few Republicans are angry with his decision to work with the Democrats on this issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some Republicans fear a repeat of the 1986 amnesty that legalized millions of illegals and but failed to uphold its promises of stricter enforcement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The details of the Trump-Pelosi-Schumer legislation remain unclear&comma; but we expect it will grant full legal status to all Dreamers in exchange for tough border security provisions&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;No deal was made last night on DACA&comma;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Trump on Thursday&period; &ldquo&semi;Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent&period; Would be subject to vote&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If the plan goes through&comma; it will be the second major deal Trump has struck with Pelosi and Schmer this month&comma;&nbsp&semi;following an agreement on the debt ceiling and government spending that shocked and angered many Republicans&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;What remains to be negotiated are the details of border security&comma; with a mutual goal of finalizing all details as soon as possible&comma;&rdquo&semi; reads a statement by Pelosi and Schumer&period; &ldquo&semi;While both sides agreed that the wall would not be any part of this agreement&comma; the President made clear he intends to pursue it at a later time&comma; and we made clear we would continue to oppose it&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later on Thursday&comma; as Trump traveled to Florida to support the state&rsquo&semi;s citizens in the wake of Hurricane Irma&comma; he reiterated his promise to revisit the border wall&colon; &ldquo&semi;The wall will come later&comma; we&rsquo&semi;re right now renovating large sections of wall&comma; massive sections&comma; making it brand new&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US Customs and Border Patrol has indeed started to move forward on the border wall&period; Just this month&comma; the agency has started to award contracts to build mock-ups of the wall&period; Trump has estimated the border wall will cost between &dollar;8 and &dollar;12 billion and has threatened to shut down the government if Congress doesn&rsquo&semi;t give him the money&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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