President Donald Trump demanded that Congress deliver funding for his border wall and make dramatic changes to immigration policy in exchange for letting young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children stay in the country. “The agencies’ bottom-up review identified several legislative priorities to fix these problems and modernize our immigration system,” Short said. Trump met last week with a small group of conservative Republican lawmakers to discuss DACA legislation. Some participants in the meeting, including Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, said Trump was willing to alter the agreement with Pelosi and Schumer by including changes to the legal immigration system. But the two senators have sympathizers among Trump’s aides, and possibly in the president himself, for whom immigration was a major campaign issue.

Source: thestar October 09, 2017 00:20 UTC