GOP senators lobby Trump to end visa diversity lottery in DACA bill

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Two Republican senators used a Thursday meeting at the White House to lobby President Trump to ensure a bill doing away with the diversity visa lottery is pushed through Congress, according to a source with knowledge of the discussion.

A senior Senate aide told the Washington Examiner that Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Sen. David Perdue of Georgia are working with Trump “to make sure” their RAISE Act is “included in any immigration solution” to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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