These young adults were brought illegally to the country as children, mostly from Mexico.
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They were probably brought illegally to Turkey, and they have to work illegally in Turkey.
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The young people were brought illegally to the country as children years ago, mostly from Mexico.
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The program allows children brought illegally to the United States to stay without fear of deportation.
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Democrats want the spending bill to include provisions on immigrants brought illegally to the country as children.
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Obama then turned to regulations, including action to allow children brought illegally to the country to stay.
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Where Mr. Obama created a legal status for immigrants brought illegally as children, Mr. Trump undid that.
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The program, killed by Trump, protects immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children from being deported.
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The teenager, brought illegally to the country by his mother as a baby, was unable to show identification.
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After Congress outlawed the importation of Africans in 1807, slaves continued to be brought illegally across the Atlantic.
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Democrats are demanding for legislation to protect so-called "Dreamers," people brought illegally into the U.S. as children.
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The consensus immigration bill would make citizenship a possibility for "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. when young.
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The Kochs strongly support legislation that would protect "Dreamers" - people brought illegally to the United States as children - from deportation.
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The law protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children from being deported.
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He assailed immigrant gang members as Democrats seek legislative protection for Latino "dreamers" brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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The brothers also strongly support legislation that seeks to protect "Dreamers" - people brought illegally to the United States as children - from deportation.
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King strongly opposed granting a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, or children who grew up in the US but were brought illegally.
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Democrats want protections for young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, while the GOP wants a funding boost for defense.
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Scrapped by Trump in 2017, it had protected young immigrants who had been brought illegally to the U.S. as children from being deported.
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Democrats had initially balked at backing a spending bill without protections for young "Dreamers," who were brought illegally to the country as children.
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DREAMERS: Trump has threatened to end an Obama-era program that helped "Dreamers," people brought illegally into the United States when they were children.
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The program allows young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children to live and work without the fear of deportation.
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Most Democrats and Republicans want to find a way to stop the deportation of nearly 700,000 people brought illegally to the US as children.
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He made no mention of ending President Obama's program that grants work permits to immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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The Obama-era program, which provides relief from deportation to young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children, was terminated by Trump last week.
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A bipartisan pair of senators said they will propose a path to citizenship for people brought illegally to the U.S. as children, but no wall.
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In September, Trump said he was ending DACA, which protects people brought illegally to the U.S. as children from deportation and provides them work authorization.
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The Dreamers were brought illegally into the United States as children, and given temporary legal status under a program started by former President Barack Obama.
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The more conservative bill would deny the chance of future citizenship to "Dreamers," who are immigrants brought illegally into the United States years ago as children.
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The Republican compromise voted on Wednesday would have provided a shot at citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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Cook has publicly objected to Trump's decision to end a program protecting from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Seventy health care organizations urged Congressional leadership on Thursday to take action on a federal program for young immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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Some congressional Democrats have used their guest ticket to invite Dreamers, those young people brought illegally to this country as children, and victims of sexual assault.
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Centrist Republicans, meanwhile, are pressing for permanent protections that could lead to citizenship for the "Dreamers," immigrants who were brought illegally as children to the United States.
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He's also the nemesis of actor Johnny Depp whose dogs, Pistol and Boo, Joyce threatened to euthanize in April 2016 after they were brought illegally into Australia.
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He's also the nemesis of actor Johnny Depp, whose dogs, Pistol and Boo, Joyce threatened to euthanize in April 2016 after they were brought illegally into Australia.
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Instead, Democrats last month proposed legislation offering a pathway to citizenship for more than 2 million undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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They want the House to debate and vote on several bills including a bipartisan one to protect the Dreamers, immigrants brought illegally as children to the United States.
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Representative Carlos Curbelo, a defeated Republican from South Florida, still held out hope for legislation to protect young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children from deportation.
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Meanwhile, Smith has emerged as one of the more vocal advocates for DACA, a program that spares young children brought illegally to the United States from being deported.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump prompted anguish for 800,000 people brought illegally to the US as children by deciding to end a program shielding them from deportation on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced the end of the Obama-era program that protects immigrants known as Dreamers, brought illegally into the United States as children, from deportation.
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The spokesperson declined to reveal specifics about the plan, including whether it provides a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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In the past two weeks there have been several hires where clients are seeking a fix for young people who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Nancy Pelosi, Trump said Thursday morning, "We're working on a plan for DACA," the Obama-era program that shielded immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children from deportation.
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He also announced the end next March of an Obama-era program giving temporary legal status to "Dreamers" brought illegally into the United States as children, unless Congress revives it.
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They want the House to debate and vote on several bills including a bipartisan one to protect the Dreamers, immigrants who were brought illegally as children to the United States.
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Democrats had insisted that any bill to renew government funding also contain permanent protections for approximately 163,000 young, undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally into the United States as children.
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Testing his new opening with Democrats, Trump also reached out on another tricky issue, the fate of 800,000 so-called Dreamers, young adults brought illegally to the country as children.
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Dreamers is a term for a group of immigrants, mostly Hispanic, who were brought illegally over U.S. borders when they were children and have been living for years in limbo.
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Democrats could demand other concessions from the White House, such as protections for immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children, known as Dreamers, or changes to other spending provisions.
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Melania Trump, wife of U.S. President Donald Trump, traveled on Thursday to Arizona to get another first-hand look at conditions for children brought illegally to the country by their parents.
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The Obama administration touted DACA — his executive order allowing children born abroad and brought illegally to the U.S. as children — as a measure to protect the human rights of undocumented immigrants.
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The Obama-era DACA program protected young immigrants brought illegally to the United States from deportation if they met certain criteria, paid fees, passed background checks and didn't commit serious crimes.
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DACA, which expires on March 5, gives immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children the right to live and work in the country without fear of deportation.
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President Trump said Thursday he is "fairly close" to a deal with lawmakers to address young immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children in exchange for "massive" border-security measures.
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Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, that protects from deportation those who were brought illegally to the U.S. when they were children.
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There was no dissent when the court in February rejected Trump's bid to immediately end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
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The court's decision also will not affect actions Mr. Obama took in 2012 to help the so-called Dreamers, young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as small children.
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DACA, which expires on March 5, gives certain immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children the right to live and work in the country without fear of deportation.
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The federal government said on Saturday that it would resume accepting renewal requests for a program that shields from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan has made similar suggestions that there would be no abrupt change in status for immigrants who had been brought illegally to the United States at a young age.
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The Senate voted on Thursday afternoon on four immigration bills, looking for any forward movement on protecting young people brought illegally to the United States as children and beefing up border security.
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In September Mr. Trump abruptly decided he'd be ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to this nation as children from deportation.
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But he also feels strongly that the 700,000 children brought illegally to the US by their parents and now allowed to stay under President Barack Obama's executive action in 2012, must remain untouched.
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The refusal of lawmakers to act led Obama to unilaterally protect Dreamers (immigrants brought illegally to the US as children) with the policy known as DACA—which Trump, naturally, has tried to revoke.
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The chief executives of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google joined roughly 300 business leaders urging President Donald Trump late Thursday to continue protecting children brought illegally to the United States from being deported.
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Then, in another dereliction of duty, lawmakers and the Trump administration combined on another abject failure -- to deal humanely with the hundreds of thousands of people, brought illegally to the country as kids.
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The program, which began in 2012, gave qualified Dreamers, who were brought illegally to the United States as children, temporary protection from deportation and the ability to study and work in the United States.
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McConnell also planned to hold a vote on legislation that would include border wall funding and relief for "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the United States as children, a compromise Trump proposed on Saturday.
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It has singled out the nation's diversity lottery system, immigration programs to allow unaccompanied minors to cross the border and deportation protections for people who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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In September, Trump said he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protects people brought illegally to the U.S. as children from deportation and also provides them work authorization.
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Whether the lack of progress signaled the possibility of another federal government shutdown next week was unclear, but it worried the Dreamers, young people who were brought illegally into the United States as children.
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The arrest data has been made public as Congress prepares to consider a pair of immigration bills put forward by Republicans that contain provisions aimed at helping immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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IBM is among dozens of technology companies to join a legal briefing opposing Trump's decision to end the "Dreamer" program that protects from deportation about 900,000 immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
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Representative Tom Cole told reporters there still were differences over central portions of the legislation, such as which Dreamer immigrants - those who were brought illegally over U.S. borders as children - should win protections from deportation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. states and immigrant advocacy groups vowed on Tuesday to fight President Donald Trump's decision to end a program that protects people brought illegally to the United States as children from deportation.
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IBM is among dozens of technology companies to join a legal briefing opposing Trump's decision to end the 'Dreamer' program that protects from deportation about 900,000 immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
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Not only was his office investigating Mr. Weinstein, but it was defending young people facing deportation after being brought illegally to the United States as children and trying to expand voting rights in New York.
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In a debate in October, Kim expressed support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protects people brought illegally to the U.S. as children from deportation and also provides them work authorization.
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Congressional Democrats rejected President Donald Trump's requests on Sunday that renewed protection for "Dreamers" — people brought illegally to the United States as children — include funding for a border wall and money for thousands more immigration officers.
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On Thursday, a group of 300 business leaders co-signed a letter to President Trump and leaders in Congress, imploring them to continue to protect "Dreamers," children brought illegally to the United States, from being deported.
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Clinton has said she will defend executive actions taken by Democratic President Barack Obama to defer deportations of children brought illegally to the United States and the parents of children who are citizens or legal residents.
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President Trump tells Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, at the Inauguration luncheon on Capitol Hill not to worry about the Dreamers, young, undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Democrats will use their leverage in the Senate, which Republicans narrowly control, to defend both discretionary non-defense programs and social spending, while tackling the issue of the "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the country as children.
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McConnell also planned to hold a vote on legislation that would include wall funding and a temporary extension of protections for "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the United States as children, an offer Trump made on Saturday.
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That would echo the approach the administration took to winding down the president's promises on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which has protected young immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.
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The problem that Mr. Trump faces as he worries aloud about how to handle the young immigrants, who were brought illegally to this country as small children, encapsulates the beating heart of the difficult choices confronting him.
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Gutiérrez in a statement Tuesday rebuked President Tump for his decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that lifts the threat of deportation from some immigrants brought illegally to the country as children.
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Here is what the White House wants to see: - Expand protections from deportation to 1.8 million immigrants who were brought illegally to the country as children, up from the 700,000 people currently signed up for the program.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday he hoped to see compromise immigration reform that combines border security measures with protections for immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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First, some evangelicals have been dismayed by Mr Trump's hard line on immigration, in particular his termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme (DACA) which shields young people, brought illegally to America as children, from deportation.
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Trump said last week he was ending an Obama-era program that protects from the deportation of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children, but he gave U.S. lawmakers six months to act on the issue.
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Why this matters: Immigrant populations almost perfectly sort the two parties, and it showed over the last week as the Senate failed to come up with a compromise to protect immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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Graham told reporters that Trump was receptive to the idea of a deal that might provide work permits to so-called Dreamers, people brought illegally to the United States as children, in exchange for money for border barriers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats rejected President Donald Trump's requests on Sunday that renewed protection for "Dreamers" - people brought illegally to the United States as children - include funding for a border wall and money for thousands more immigration officers.
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The situation has been complicated by the debate over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Obama-era initiative that offered deportation reprieves and work permits to young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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Sooner or later, Trump must take a hard position on whether to allow some 700,000 people brought illegally to the US as children to stay, a move that could hurt him with some of his most fervent supporters.
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On Tuesday, Whitman joined a growing list of tech CEOs who opposed President Donald Trump's decision to scrap the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects from deportation immigrants brought illegally in the United States as children.
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While they applaud more spending on veterans, the military, disaster aid and fighting opioid addiction, many are enraged it does not come with any guarantee that Congress will help "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Separately, the ministry said Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray will travel to the United States this week to meet with local leaders and beneficiaries of a U.S. program protecting from deportation immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
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The Senate leader said he would also bring up for a Thursday vote a proposal by Trump to end the shutdown that includes border wall funding and relief for "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jovan Rodriguez plans to go underground if protections for immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children expire, giving up on dreams of a master's degree and a career in New York's glittering theater world.
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The Senate failed Thursday afternoon to advance any of the four immigration bills that were put on the floor for a vote, unable to make any movement toward protecting young people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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A federal judge in the District of Columbia has ruled that the Trump administration must fully reinstate the program it canceled last fall that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.
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The bipartisan Schumer-Rounds-Collins Common Sense Coalition in the Senate agreed to his terms: $6900 billion for a border wall in exchange for a path to citizenship for 2628 million Dreamers brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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The retired general also said he was "disgusted" by Kelly's rhetoric on the immigrant kids brought illegally to the US. "I'll also say this old axiom: The command takes on the personality of the commander," the retired general said.
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One of the biggest challenges looms in December, when Congress will respond to President Trump's decision to reverse the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided work permits for immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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On Saturday, Trump proposed ending the government shutdown in a deal that would have restored temporary protections for immigrants brought illegally to the United States as minors, in exchange for the $5.7 billion he is seeking for the wall.
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While Democrats applauded more spending on veterans, the military, disaster aid and fighting opioid addiction, many were unhappy that the deal did not give guarantees that Congress will help "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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The fate of the program, created by a 2012 executive order by President Barack Obama to give temporary deportation relief to young people brought illegally to the US as children, has whipsawed back and forth over the last eight months.
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With some of Mr Trump's more controversial policies—his Muslim travel ban, for example, and his decision to end DACA, Barack Obama's protections for immigrants brought illegally to America as children—the Supreme Court has opted for an unhurried path.
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DACA is the biggest warning sign for Republicans: 64% of voters across all three states support protections for immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children, and 71% support offering immigrants a chance to apply for citizenship rather than deporting them.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who pledged to help protect young people known as "Dreamers" brought illegally to the United States as children, called on Sunday for money to fund a border wall to be part of any immigration deal.
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He has been more publicly conflicted about his decision last fall to rescind DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that has given legal status to certain people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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The ruling means that young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as small children can continue to apply for the program, which shields them from immediate deportation and provides a permit to work legally in the United States.
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" Obama and DACA Speaking of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative created by the Obama administration in 228.3 to protect "DREAMers," people brought illegally to the US as children, Trump said, "You know, President Obama signed that bill.
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The U.S. Congress, back from vacation on Tuesday, already had its plate full with urgent fiscal and disaster relief issues when President Donald Trump saddled it with deciding the fate of people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and top aides have urged conservative Republicans in Congress to craft legislation protecting "Dreamers" brought illegally to the United States as children, a move that could jeopardize efforts to work with Democrats on the issue.
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Congressional Democrats, hoping for a vote tsunami in midterm elections this fall, are being driven on by a raging anti-Trump grassroots voting base as they seek to shield nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Durbin, in an interview with Reuters, described Kushner as a conduit to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, and open to the idea of doing something to help the 800,000 Dreamers brought illegally to the United States as children.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
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Cornyn also said that if Congress cannot meet an early March deadline for passing legislation providing the protections against deportation for undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally into the United States as children, President Donald Trump could consider extending the deadline.
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It would enshrine protections for the nearly 800,000 immigrants brought illegally to this country as kids who had benefited from former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which provided temporary work permits and shielded recipients from deportation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday the DACA program allowing people who were brought illegally into the United States as children to stay in the country was not on the negotiating table until the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in.
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On Sunday night, after repeatedly urging Congress to pass a bill legalizing DACA—an Obama-era program granting work permits and deportation relief to immigrants brought illegally into the country as children—President Donald Trump made that legislative process a lot harder.
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President Donald Trump, who pledged to work with Democrats to protect "Dreamers" — young people brought illegally to the United States as children — called on Sunday for money to fund a border wall and thousands more immigration officers to be part of any deal.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress, back from vacation on Tuesday, already had its plate full with urgent fiscal and disaster relief issues when President Donald Trump saddled it with deciding the fate of people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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As Trump has shifted gears in September toward negotiating with Democrats on the budget and young people brought illegally to the US as children by their parents, more recent Gallup results show narrowing in the education-, but not the age-, gap among Republicans.
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The unity plea will first be put to the test in his drive for a compromise on protecting 1.8 million Dreamers - people brought illegally to the country as children - who face a March 5 deadline on whether they can begin to be deported.
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Miller, 32, has played a key role in a number of White House policies, including the travel ban and rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provided permits and deportation deferrals for young immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
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If he moves aggressively, he could immediately overturn Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — the program Mr. Obama created to protect young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children, giving them legal status and access to work permits.
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But at times under Trump there have been signs that a deal is possible -- to tighten borders, ease the plight of people brought illegally to the US as kids and pour resources into dealing with problems like a glut of asylum claims.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - First lady Melania Trump made a second trip on Thursday to view facilities housing children brought illegally across the border with Mexico and who have yet to be reunited with their parents after the Trump administration reversed its separation policy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era program that protects from deportation immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children, delaying implementation until March and giving a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the fate of almost 800,20163 young people.
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Cox said he did not know whether Abraham-Joseph, who media reports said is 26, would have been eligible for protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, which protects "Dreamers," young immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.
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Highlighting her record on education, health care and civil rights, her campaign holds a lopsided advantage over Mr. Sanders in Nevada in endorsements from Latino elected officials, community activists and prominent so-called Dreamers, who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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He has appealed to Democrats to help, but lawmakers from the party are furious about his recent comments about white supremacists and his move on Tuesday to end a program that gave work permits to some immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
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Democrats have backed off their demands to include protections in the stopgap bill for young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, but have been insistent that they will not back an increase for defense without a boost for nondefense programs as well.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million "Dreamers," who were brought illegally to the United States as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday.
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It could trigger a House debate in June or July on four bills designed to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has protected some 800,000 people brought illegally to the United States as children, mainly from Mexico and Central America.
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President Donald Trump has told Congress that he would support a new law that spares young adults brought illegally to the United States from being deported — but only if lawmakers also fund his controversial plan to erect a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Cox said he did not know whether Abraham-Joseph, who media reports said is 26, would have been eligible for protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, which protects "Dreamers", young immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.
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With existing money running out on Thursday, lawmakers were rushing to pass a stop-gap spending bill that would keep agencies open as they continue a months-long effort to give permanent protections to Dreamers, who were brought illegally to the United States when they were children.
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A late attempt to help young "Dreamers," who were brought illegally into the United States by their parents, failed, however, as a White House proposal was "off the table as soon as they offered it because it was so biased," said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
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Three of these concern Trump's attempt to end a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), launched in 2012 by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants dubbed "Dreamers" who were brought illegally into the United States as children.
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But her life could soon be upended in a showdown over a five-year-old initiative, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which has granted permission to stay and work to about 24,24 immigrants like Ms. Rojas who were brought illegally to the United States as children.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Tech companies Alphabet Inc's Google, IBM Corp and Lyft on Wednesday will join a legal briefing opposing U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to end a program that protects from deportation about 900,000 immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children, the companies told Reuters.
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Graham, a Republican, told reporters after meeting Trump for lunch at the White House that Trump was receptive to Graham's idea of a deal that might provide work permits to so-called Dreamers, people brought illegally to the United States as children, in exchange for money for physical border barriers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.
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There are also some areas where Trump has yet to deliver, including a proposed ban on Trump administration officials from lobbying after leaving their positions and the termination of an Obama-era program that allows people brought illegally to the U.S as children to live and work without fear of deportation.
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WASHINGTON — In the middle of an intense political fight about the program that shields from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children, a federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction late Tuesday ordering the Trump administration to start the program back up again.
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Some conservative commentators, including Sean Hannity of Fox News, who is close to Mr. Trump, may have signaled a path out, suggesting that the president resurrect the old Democratic notion of twinning wall funding with protections for the young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children who are known as Dreamers.
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Many GOP lawmakers believe any plan at the very least must address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides deportation relief and work permits for people brought illegally to the U.S. as children, because doing so is crucial for securing the backing of Democrats and Republicans representing blue or purple states.
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Durbin had been working for months with Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, on a deal to grant legal status to the so-called "Dreamers" — children who had been brought illegally into the country by their parents when they were very young, had grown up here and knew only the United States as home.
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DOJ wants the Supreme Court to decide the merits of its plan to rescind the DACA program - which allows young adults brought illegally to the U.S. as children to obtain two-year deferrals from the threat of deportation, as well as work permits and Social Security numbers – even though no federal appellate court has reviewed the question.
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But the immigration votes were part of a long-running drama that can be traced back to a different action by Mr. Trump: his move last year to end an Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which had shielded the young immigrants known as Dreamers, who were brought illegally to the country as children.
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Heller, talks immigration and trade at state's GOP convention White House defends immigration policy amid backlash The updated bill that will be considered this week will include requirements that employers use E-Verify to check the legal status of their workers, but would make citizenship a possibility for Dreamer immigrants -- those brought illegally to the U.S. by their parents as children.
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In the press conference, President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE pledged to act with "great heart" when considering the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which temporarily stopped the deportation of individuals unwittingly brought illegally into the United States by their parents.
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"It's clear Trump is getting bad advice from the Democrats in the West Wing," said one Bannon ally, noting his decisions to send more troops to Afghanistan and the possible deal with Democrats on legislation to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive program, which allow immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as minors stay in the United States and apply for work permits.
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The president has declared in recent days that he is no longer open to a deal to protect young immigrants brought illegally into the U.S. as children, has called on Mexico to step up efforts to deter illegal border crossings, has demanded Congress change U.S. immigration laws and has repeatedly warned of a so-called caravan of migrants heading for the U.S.-Mexico border.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE said Friday that undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children should "rest easy" and not fear deportation under his administration's efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement.
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Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, wrote an opinion article in The Washington Post suggesting three ways out: Grant the president the $1.6 billion for border security that he requested, without wall funding, plus an additional $1 billion for security at ports of entry; approve a bipartisan bill linking wall funding with protection for young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children; or resurrect the 2013 comprehensive immigration overhaul that included huge increases in border security measures, sweeping changes to immigration law and a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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