Trump Sets High Price for Democrats on Immigration Deal
- Proposal would double number now covered under DACA program
- Democratic leaders reject Trump proposal as anti-immigrant
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President Donald Trump offered Democrats a concession on immigration but at a price that so far they’ve been unwilling to accept.
The administration Thursday night proposed giving 1.8 million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a path to citizenship in exchange for drastically reducing family-based migration, a $25 billion trust fund for a border wall, stepped-up security at ports of entry, and stricter internal enforcement.