Report: Trump weighed impact on 2020 race

As the Trump administration in its early days tried to push through hardline immigration policies, it appeared to calculate their possible impact on the 2020 presidential race while rejecting national security warnings from U.S. diplomats, according to State Department memos made public Thursday.

The internal documents, released in a report by Senate Democrats, offer a rare glimpse into the divide between career diplomats and a new administration eager to end a program protecting nearly 400,000 migrants from Central America and Haiti who had been living and working legally in the U.S.

Facing legal challenges, the Trump administration has since backed down and last month extended for a year the socalled temporary protected status, or TPS, for the migrants as U.S. courts work through the disputes.