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Trump Gives Major Announcement About Immigration

At 4 PM ET, Trump made an announcement about immigration and border security in the White House.

CNN and CBS shared that Trump has an offer prepared that the White House hopes will bring Democrats to the negotiating table. Referencing an unnamed administration official, the reports suggest that the offer will include several major concessions to Democrats on immigration — but absolutely no compromise on the border wall.

Jonathan Swan from Axios reports that in the deal for his wall, Trump will possibly safeguard the DREAMers by offering to temporarily shield them from deportation and give them three-year work permits through DACA. These measures, which are currently part of the BRIDGE Act, are included in the legislation that the President will support, also extending the legal status of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders. All three sources state that Vice President Mike Pence and Jared Kushner were behind the current iterations of a possible deal on both the government shutdown and the border wall.

What The Plan Consists Of (Courtesy of Vox) Rewatch CBSN’s coverage of Trump’s speech below, and follow live updates of reaction to Trump’s speech. This post will be updated when new information is available.  
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Next week the House will take up another batch of spending bills aimed at reopening the government without funding the wall that will include some spending directed to the border. One bill will include $563 million for immigration judges, the same figure Trump has requested; another will include $524 million to expand facilities at ports of entry along the border.

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Aides to the top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — said late Friday that they had received no new offer from the White House.

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Trump to offer temporary protections for undocumented ‘dreamers’ in exchange for $5.7 billion for border wall, GOP officials say

President Trump is preparing to make a new offer to Democrats that could end the record-breaking government shutdown in a rare Saturday address from the White House, while stopping short of declaring a national emergency on the southern border.

With the shutdown in its 29th day, Trump was expected to propose items he believes Democrats favor as part of a broader border-security package, according to two people familiar with White House planning. The hope is the proposal would revive negotiations with congressional Democrats, which have been nonexistent for days.

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