Trump: No, I Don't Have a DACA Deal With Democrats

Thursday morning brings a dose of confusion to the debate over the fate of young undocumented immigrants. President Trump tweeted that he and top Democrats had not reached a deal about the fate of the Dreamers, despite Democrats' assertion Wednesday night to the contrary. "No deal was made last night on DACA," the president wrote, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent." All this began when Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer had a dinner meeting with Trump at the White House on Wednesday, and Democrats emerged afterward to declare that they'd struck a deal to "enshrine the protections of DACA into law." In exchange, they'd agree to a number of border security improvements—excluding the president's proposed border wall.

Almost immediately, the White House pushed back on that characterization, with press chief Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeting that no deal to exclude the border wall was struck, reports the New York Times. Trump reiterated that in his tweet, adding that the wall "will continue to be built." (He didn't, however, address whether funding would be linked to DACA.) But the president also expressed support for Dreamers and suggested that he wanted a deal that would provide some kind of pathway to citizenship for them. "Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!" he wrote. "They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own - brought in by parents at young age." (More President Trump stories.)