Trump's DACA

From the BBC:

"Trump lays out pathway to citizenship for immigrants"

President Donald Trump has said he is open to a deal that would create a path for citizenship for undocumented young people brought to the US as children. Mr Trump said immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme could obtain citizenship after "10 to 12 years".  His comments came as the White House said it would unveil a legislative plan on immigration on Monday.  He told reporters the deal would be contingent on border wall funding.  "We're going to morph into it," the president told reporters on Wednesday during a meeting with his chief of staff John Kelly.  "It's going to happen, at some point in the future, over a period of 10 to 12 years." Mr Trump plans to unveil the framework of an immigration deal that will include $25bn (£17bn) for a wall between the US and Mexico and an additional $5bn for border security programmes. This includes measures to curb family sponsorship of immigrants and an end or change to the visa lottery programme.  Mr Trump cancelled the Obama-era programme in September and gave Congress a March deadline to come up with a new plan for the 700,000 undocumented young people registered under Daca. The president has so far rejected bipartisan proposals that have been presented to him.  Most recently this led to a three-day government shutdown that ended on Monday when Democrats agreed to vote to fund the government until 8 February. On Wednesday, Mr Trump said he was optimistic that a deal on immigration would be reached that included keeping the so-called Dreamers in the country.  He added that it was "incentive" for so-called Dreamers to work hard and "do a great job".  Republican senator Lindsey Graham applauded the president's comments and called them a major breakthrough."President Trump's support for a pathway to citizenship will help us get strong border security measures as we work to modernize a broken immigration system," he said in a statement. "With this strong statement by President Trump, I have never felt better about our chances of finding a solution on immigration." Mr Graham was one of a group of bipartisan senators who went to the White House with a proposal on immigration that ended in the president using a vulgar term to refer to Haiti and some African countries. Talks on immigration have started up once again and Mr Graham, along with a bipartisan group of three dozen senators, met Wednesday to work on possible immigration legislation. For any new immigration laws to be created, both the Senate and the House of Representatives would have to approve a bill.  In Wednesday's conversation with reporters, Mr Trump also said he is prepared to be questioned under oath as part of an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. 

^ I still do not believe that any illegal immigrants should be anything but deported back to their home country as they are criminals. The fact that Trump has made this statement (that he's open to them getting citizenship in 10-12 years) shows that he is willing to do what it takes to avoid another Federal Government Shutdown (on February 8th.) Hopefully Trump, the Democrats, the Republicans and the Independents will agree on a lasting-agreement to keep the Government open and the US Military paid. ^

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42821505