John Cornyn: Deal Trump and Enshrine Protections

john cornyn: John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican, put it this way There was a deal to make a deal, according to CTV. Trump himself said he was fairly close to an agreement that could protect the young Dreamers while also adding border security, as long as his long-promised wall with Mexico was also separately addressed. In the face of an intense backlash from conservatives inside the Capitol and out, Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP House members adamantly insisted that there was no agreement to enshrine protections for the immigrants brought to America as children and now here illegally. Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer -- whose dinner with Trump Wednesday night was at the heart of the controversy -- insisted there was discussion and even agreement on legislation that would offer eventual citizenship to the immigrants in question. But one person familiar with the meeting said the president had agreed not to the DREAM Act, but to narrower legislation that would make permanent the protections offered by President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. We agreed it would be the DREAM Act, Schumer told reporters, referring to a bipartisan bill that would allow immigrants brought here as children and now in the U.S. illegally to work their way to citizenship in as little as five years if they meet certain requirements. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.