Pelosi and Schumer Announce Deal With Trump to Protect Young Immigrants by Making DACA Federal Law

Trump Throws GOP Congress a Curve Ball

Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer late Wednesday night announced they have forged a deal with President Donald Trump to protect DREAMers by making President Obama’s DACA executive order federal law.

“We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides,” the two top Democrats said in a joint statement Wednesday night. 

Pelosi and Schumer had blasted the Republican president when he announced last week he was rescinding the program, officially known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The vast majority of Americans support DACA and believe deporting young undocumented immigrants is wrong.

But House Speaker Paul Ryan, who denounced then announced support for Trump’s decision to kill DACA, would have to support a bill to turn DACA into law, as would Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Republican Senate leader strongly supported Trump’s decision on DACA last week.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took to Twitter to push back on the claim no wall was part of the agreement:

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