WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed a bipartisan Senate immigration plan as ?a big step backwards,? saying it would force the United States to admit people from ?high crime? countries, digging in on a position critics decried as racist. Trump defended his stance on the immigration deal reached by a group of six Republican and Democratic seNators on Thursday and denied using a vulgar reference to immigrants that drew widespread condemnation.?The so-called bipartisan DACA deal presented yesterday to myself and a group of Republican SeNators and Congressmen was a big step backwards,? Trump said in a series of Twitter posts on Friday. The Senate group has been working for months to craft legislation that would protect 700,000 illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children under a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The tentative deal also addresses border security, including a border wall, the diversity visa lottery and chain migration.
01-13-2018, 07:23 AM
Trump slams Senate ?Dreamer? deal
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