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Sources: Trump questions allowing immigrants from Haiti, Africa, other 's---hole' countries
- ABC News

posted onJanuary 12, 2018
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Article snippet: In an Oval Office meeting at the White House Thursday, executive order by President Barack Obama, following Trump's announcement in September that he would end the program. Several different groups of lawmakers are working on their own immigration proposals. Democrats and Republicans broadly agree that any solution should address four principles: a border security measures and reform of the diversity visa lottery program and the practice of family-based migration. DACA protects around 800,000 children of undocumented immigrants, brought to the United States when they were very young, from deportation. But if Congress fails to act, those DACA recipients could face deportation as early as March 6 because they were unable to renew their protection. Members of the more moderate “Group of Six,” consisting of Durbin, Graham, Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., began announcing to reporters early Thursday afternoon that they had reached an agreement in principle among themselves. But around the same time they were touting their achievement, Graham and Durbin were meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office to brief him on their plan. The White House also invited more conservative members of both chambers to join: Sens. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. “Durbin and Graham had a clear plan to try to go and present their plan to the president and make their case and end run everyone else involved in negotiat... Link to the full article to read more

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