Don crushes Dream with wall demand

THE WHITE HOUSE issued an immigration wish list Sunday that threatens a deal with Congress on the fate of the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers, according to a report.

President Trump is insisting on increased funding to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and a cut of federal grants to so-called sanctuary cities as part of any deal to extend protections for undocumented immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, The Washington Post reported.

Democrats condemned Trump’s latest move to crack down on immigration.

“The administration can’t be serious about compromise or helping the Dreamers if they begin with a list that is anathema to the Dreamers, to the immigrant community and to the vast majority of Americans,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement Sunday.

“We told the President at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures alongside the DREAM Act, but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable,” the leaders continued. “This proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise.”

The White House argued that Trump’s immigration proposals were necessary to protect the public and jobs for American workers, according to The Post.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised the President’s immigration wish list to Congress.

“This plan will work,” Sessions said in a statement. “If followed it will produce an immigration system with integrity and one in which we can take pride.”

In September, the Trump administration announced it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects from deportation nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

The DACA program, which President Barack Obama created through an executive order in 2012, also allows Dreamers to work, study and obtain a Social Security number.