Trump accuses Dems who oppose immigration plan of supporting 'open borders'

Source: The Hill

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 02/06/18 11:27 AM EST

President Trump on Tuesday accused Democrats who oppose his immigration proposal of advocating for open borders and failing to take seriously the effort to enshrine legal protections for young, undocumented immigrants into law.

In a tweet, Trump cited a Harvard Harris poll putting support for his immigration priorities at roughly 65 percent, and said reiterated his demand that any legislative deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would need to up border security, end family-based immigration and do away with the diversity lottery program.

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Trump unveiled his immigration proposal, which would offer young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children – known as "dreamers" – a pathway to citizenship in exchange for billions of dollars in funding for his long-promised wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

In a follow-up tweet on Tuesday, Trump called for a merit-based immigration system that would end family-based immigration and the diversity lottery program, which provides a limited number of visas to people from countries with low levels of immigration to the U.S.

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