Trump: Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell ‘on board’ with deal on Dream Act, border security

Published September 14, 2017 12:55pm ET



President Trump said Thursday that House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are “on board” with a tentative bipartisan plan to pass the Dream Act to protect illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, and include border security measures that stop short of building a border wall.

“Mitch is on board. Paul Ryan is on board. We all feel — look, 92 percent of the people agree on DACA, but what we want is we want very, very powerful border security, okay,” Trump told reporters outside the White House before departing for Florida.

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