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March Deadline: Trump and Undocumented Ers

march deadline: I really do believe Democrat and Republican, the people sitting in this room, really want to get something done, Trump said, according to Toronto Star. Read more Trump's about-face on Dreamers leaves his anti-immigration supporters raging Article Continued Below Trump ends Obama program that protects undocumented DREAMers,' putting 800,000 at risk for deportation react-text 155 Lawmakers are facing a March 5 deadline, set by Trump, before the bulk of nearly 700,000 work permits issued to the dreamers under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA program begin to expire in bulk. /react-text DOUG MILLS / The New York Times Young DREAMers conquer their fears, step up to the megaphone Lawmakers in both parties have said they are waiting for the Trump White House to specify its demands before the negotiations can move forward. Ahead of a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House, Trump challenged them to put country before party in his push to tighten border-control laws in exchange for providing legal status to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, a group known as dreamers. But at the meeting, Trump insisted he would support any deal that negotiators in Congress agree on. react-empty 165 My position is going to be what the people in this room come up with, he said. What I approve will be very much reliant on what people in this room come to me with. I have a lot of respect for people on both sides. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.