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White House Previews New Plan for Dreamers

President Donald Trump listens during a dinner with European business leaders at the World Economic Forum, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, in Davos.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

By ZEKE MILLER White House said, putting promised to eliminate an younger immigrants — On Wednesday, Trump said
JILL COLVIN forward an outline likely to Obama-era program pro- about half the number who he was open to a pathway
ALAN FRAM find resistance from some tecting immigrants brought qualified for the program, to citizenship for younger
Associated Press of Trump’s conservative al- to the U.S. as children and according to independent immigrants brought ille-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- lies. now in the country illegally. estimates. Trump’s plan gally to the U.S. as children.
dent Donald Trump is pro- Senior White House offi- He later urged lawmakers would expand this further “We’re going to morph
posing a plan that provides cials offered a preview of to extend the program, by adjusting some of the into it,” Trump told report-
a path to citizenship for Trump’s immigration frame- but maintained he was not requirements, officials said, ers. “It’s going to happen,
1.8 million of the so-called work Thursday, casting it as considering citizenship. but they would not offer at some point in the future,
“Dreamer” immigrants, a compromise that could The Obama-era Deferred specific details. It would not over a period of 10 to 12
tighter restrictions on legal pass the Senate. The pro- Action for Childhood Arriv- allow parents of those im- years.”
immigration and $25 bil- posal represents a reversal als program currently cov- migrants to seek lawful sta-
lion in border security, the for the president, who once ers roughly 690,000 of those tus, the officials said. Continued on Page 3