Dream kids just another border brick

IT’S THE ART of the cold-hearted deal.

President Trump’s aides have been urging him to use Dreamer immigrants as a “bargaining chip” in a deal to secure funding for a Mexican border wall and stronger immigration laws, according to a report.

Several of the President’s top advisers, including his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, are pushing Trump to protect Dreamers — children brought into America illegally — from deportation, McClatchyDC reported.

This would break a major campaign pledge from Trump to deport Dreamers as part of his mission to crack down on illegal immigration.

But the aides have said Trump could use this for leverage to coerce Congress into fiercer immigration enforcement.

Under the proposed deal, Trump would keep in place protection for Dreamers in exchange for legislation that cuts legal immigration, introduces an online system for businesses to check immigration status and payments for the border wall, which was one of his most famous campaign promises.

According to the report, Ivanka, Kushner, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Vice President Pence have told Trump to push for the compromise.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and policy adviser Stephen Miller, who share hardline views on immigration, have told Trump to walk away from the potential deal.

Trump hasn’t indicated which side he is leaning toward, and the White House has not commented.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he wasn’t interested in such a deal.

“Dreamers are not a bargaining chip for the border wall and inhumane deportation force. Period,” he tweeted.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tweeted that the idea was “reprehensible.”

“America’s Dreamers are not negotiable,” she said.

Trump has shown conflicting stances on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals through his political career.

He ran on a pledge to deport the 800,000 children covered by the program and called the policy, instituted by President Barack Obama, an abuse of power.

But he has not taken any action in office to dismantle the program.