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Obama Administration: Force Action and Trump-Gop Stance

obama administration: Those immigrants, known by supporters as Dreamers, are in limbo after Trump announced he was ending temporary deportation protections granted by the Obama administration and giving Congress until March to come up with a fix, according to Metro News. Democrats have indicated they want to use a year-end spending bill to force action on Dreamers. Instead, they said, a solution would likely wait until next year for some 800,000 immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children. Their votes will likely be needed to pass spending legislation to keep the government running, so the Trump-GOP stance may not end up prevailing. Tom Cotton of Arkansas after exiting the meeting with Trump. No immigration bill on the omnibus or any other must-pass piece of legislation in 2017, said GOP Sen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.