Childhood Arrivals: u.s.-Mexico Border and Immigration Priorities

childhood arrivals: Just under half 49 per cent oppose construction, while 32 per cent support it, according to Metro News. On Sunday, Trump told lawmakers his hardline immigration priorities, including the wall, must be approved if he is to go along with protecting the young immigrants from deportation. Americans also have largely negative opinions about President Donald Trump's signature immigration pledge to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About 800,000 young immigrants had been given a deportation reprieve under President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, until Trump ended the program last month. About 60 per cent of Americans favour allowing those young immigrants, commonly referred as Dreamers, to stay in the U.S. legally, compared to 22 per cent who are opposed. He's given Congress six months to act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.