"Daca is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military," the Republican president tweeted. The White House has not denied that Mr Trump said the word "shithole". The president also rejected as insufficient an immigration deal drafted by the bipartisan group of politicians who attended that meeting. Mr Trump’s staunchest supporters consider any route to citizenship for the Dreamers to be an amnesty for lawbreakers. The debate over Daca’s fate came as politicians were forced to answer questions about whether Mr Trump is racist.

Source: Evening echo January 14, 2018 19:30 UTC