Trump Hardens Immigration Stance Heading Into Shutdown Talks

Democrats seek to restore protections for young immigrants
White House demands border wall and new visa restrictions

The Democrats are pushing for a DACA deal in the spending bill. Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli reports.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Jennifer Epstein and Erik Wasson

January 3, 2018 at 9:00 AM UTC

Updated on

January 3, 2018 at 3:01 PM UTC

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President Donald Trump is hardening his demands for a deal to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, a dispute with congressional Democrats that hangs over talks this week to avoid a government shutdown.

Any deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, must also forbid immigrants from sponsoring family members to join them in the U.S., end a program that allots visas to people from countries with low rates of migration to America, and provide money for a wall on the Mexican border, a White House spokesman said Tuesday. The statement echoed a Trump tweet from last week.