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Border Wall: Two-and-a-Half-Year Extension and Security Measures

border wall: Democrats say for that amount, DACA recipients and people who might qualify for the program must get more a chance at citizenship.DACA lets immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children stay temporarily and get jobs, according to Metro News. Trump halted the program last fall. President Donald Trump and top congressional Democrats remain shy of an agreement to put language into a government spending bill to protect many young immigrants from deportation.A White House official and a Senate Democratic aide say the White House has offered a two-and-a-half-year extension of President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. In exchange, the White House wants 25 billion for Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico and other security measures. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose private talks. President Donald Trump has told two Republican senators that he supports adding proposals to a huge spending bill that would provide billions in federal subsidies to insurers to help curb health care premium increases. Jill Colvin 2 40 p.m. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.