Immigration

DACA fix won’t be included in year-end spending bill

By Al Weaver
Published November 2, 2017 6:31pm ET
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DACA fix won’t be included in year-end spending bill
DACA gives nearly 800,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children the ability to work and stay in the U.S., but Republicans say that kind of program should have been created by legislation, not unilaterally by President Obama. (Chieko Hara/The Porterville Recorder via AP) | Chieko Hara

President Trump and Senate Republicans agreed Wednesday to not attach a fix to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to a government funding bill that will be needed by Dec. 8.

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Wednesday afternoon any fix for DACA would not come before February. Cornyn was one of seven senators who met with the president at the White House earlier in the day.

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