Here ’s Everything President Trump Has Ever Said About DACA

President Trump has given conflicting signals in the past day about the fate of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children. After a dinner at the White House Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said they were confident that a deal could be reached. Trump then said that a deal was “fairly close” but also that he wanted more out of the arrangement. “We’ll only do it if we get extreme security, not only surveillance but everything that goes with surveillance,” he said Thursday. “If there’s not a wall, we’re doing nothing,” he added, speaking of his campaign promise to build a new security wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The overnight confusion about the future of the 800,000 undocumented immigrants currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, mirrors Trump’s conflicting statements since he became a presidential candidate in 2015. At various times, Trump has promised to terminate the DACA program immediately and told so-called Dreamers that they have nothing to worry about. Here’s what President Trump has most recently said about DACA, and how it contrasts with his previous statements. September 14, 2017: “We’re working on a plan for DACA” “We’re working on a plan — subject to getting massive border controls,” Trump told reporters Thursday morning before embarking...
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