Republican senators do not plan to include amnesty for several hundred thousand illegal immigrants in a December spending bill, according to a Friday report in The Wall Street Journal.
President Donald Trump announced in September the rollback of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects around 800,000 illegal immigrants, and asked Congress to work on giving them legal status.
“President Trump rightfully put an end to rumors that a DACA amnesty could be part of a year-end spending bill,” R.J. Hauman, government relations director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), told The Daily Caller. “Fundamental changes to U.S. immigration laws must be debated openly in front of the American people – not drafted behind closed doors and attached to must-pass legislation.”
Frank Sharry, executive director of the pro-amnesty America’s Voice, told the Journal, “Delay means defeat and we are not going to stand for it.”
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