- Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:38 pm
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The whole agreement has been that how can children who were brought here illegally by their parents be held accountable for their parent's actions. Trump has responded by saying we won't but their adult parents will be held accountable and must leave! The dude is a genius, now the Democrats have to declare their argument isn't about children brought here illegally but about allowing anyone that comes here illegally to get citizenship.
On Wednesday, however, Trump said he was open to a pathway to citizenship for younger immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
"We're going to morph into it," Trump told reporters. "It's going to happen, at some point in the future, over a period of 10 to 12 years."
Legal status for the recipients would be revocable for criminal behavior and national security threats, the officials said, and eventual citizenship would require still-unspecified work and education requirements -- and a finding that the immigrants are of "good moral character."
Trump's plan would restrict new family-based immigration to spouses and minor children, doing away with provisions allowing parents, adult siblings and others to enter the country. The officials said it would only end new applications for visas, allowing those already in the pipeline to be processed.
It would also end the diversity visa lottery program, which drew Trump's attention after the New York City truck attack last year, redirecting the allotment annually to bringing down the existing backlog in visa applications.
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