Republicans urge Trump to keep DACA

Published September 1, 2017 5:00pm ET



House and Senate Republicans said Friday they do not want President Trump to repeal a program legalizing young people who arrived in the United States illegally as children.

Both House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Trump should keep in place the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which Trump is reportedly considering ending.

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