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U.S. NEWS Friday 15 September 2017
‘Dreamers’ wait as Trump, lawmakers joust over DACA policy

the campaign on the issue Sarah Huckabee Sanders
of the border wall and bor- denying a deal had been
der security that if he were struck or the wall excluded
to backtrack on that prom- from it. Some also won-
ise I don’t think he’d have dered aloud on Thursday
a single friend left in the whether the president was
country. Democrats aren’t aware of the minutiae of
going to support him and the DREAM Act legislation
he would lose the entire Re- discussed on Wednesday,
publican base,” said GOP including the fact that it in-
Rep. Tom McClintock of cludes an eventual path to
California. “This was a core citizenship.
explicit and graphically “We’re not looking at citi-
clear promise he made to zenship, we’re not looking
the American people.” at amnesty. We’re looking
“At this point, who DOESN’T at allowing people to stay
want Trump impeached?” here,” Trump told reporters
conservative commenta- as he traveled to view hur-
tor Ann Coulter remarked ricane damage in Florida.
over Twitter. “And we’re working with
Administration officials everybody. Republican.
quickly recognized the We’re working with Demo-

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters on the morning after she and danger in the backlash, crat.”
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer met with President Donald Trump seeking a legislative and the White House shift- “But very importantly, what
solution tto the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, ed into damage control we want: We have to have
Thursday morning, Sept. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) mode, with press secretary a wall,” Trump said. q
Continued from Front immigration, which has de-
feated Congress for years,
“We agreed it would be remained as tricky and
the DREAM Act,” Schumer explosive as ever. After
told reporters, referring to winning the White House
a bipartisan bill that would on a campaign that was
allow immigrants brought remarkably harsh toward
here as children and now immigrants and revolved
in the U.S. illegally to work around construction of an
their way to citizenship in enormous wall along the
as little as five years if they entire border with Mexico,
meet certain requirements. Trump’s sudden pivot in-
What was clear was that furiated some of his clos-
the outcome for the est allies, and seemed to
“Dreamers” themselves contain more potential to
was still unresolved and alienate his base than any
subject to much further of his other unconventional
debate and negotiation moves.
— and that the politics of “He was so explicit during

Trump renews criticism of antifa

By JESSE J. HOLLAND Recounting his conversa-
Associated Press tion with Scott, Trump told
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- reporters aboard Air Force
dent Donald Trump on One on Thursday: “I think
Thursday revived his asser- especially in light of the ad-
tions that he thought there vent of antifa, if you look at
were “bad dudes” among what’s going on there, you
the people who assem- know, you have some pret-
bled to oppose a white na- ty bad dudes on the other
tionalist protest in Charlot- side also. And essentially
tesville, Virginia, last month. that’s what I said.”
Trump latest comments “Antifa” is short for “anti-
came one day after he fascist,” an umbrella de-
met in private with Sen. scription for far-left-leaning
Tim Scott of South Caro- militant groups.
lina, the Senate’s lone Trump added that more
black Republican, at the and more people are start-
White House. The two dis- ing to agree with him.
cussed the president’s past “A lot of people are say-
remarks blaming “many ing — in fact a lot of peo-
sides” for the violence and ple have actually written,
death around a Confeder- ‘Gee Trump might have a
ate statue. point,’” Trump said. q