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In The Thick

ITT FYI: Is Trump's New DACA Framework DOA?

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The Trump team unveiled new immigration framework with a path to citizenship for DACA in exchange for $25 billion for the border wall and sweeping changes to the legal immigration system. We spoke with Buzzfeed's White House correspondent Tarini Parti to get the latest.

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0:00.0

Okay, so the Trump team unveiled a new immigration framework on Thursday with a path to citizenship

0:12.2

for dreamers in exchange for a $25 billion trust

0:16.7

fund for the border wall and sweeping changes to the legal immigration system and I had to call my good friend White House correspondent

0:26.3

for Buzzfeed News Tarini party about all this. Hey Tarini.

0:30.6

Hey Holyo. You know the plan includes massive cuts in family-based

0:34.8

migration and end to the visa lottery system. So what are your first

0:39.5

impressions of the language being used in that framework.

0:42.6

So it seems like they were trying to please two opposite sides of the spectrum all at once,

0:49.2

and in doing so they really didn't please anybody

0:52.8

of those people.

0:54.8

So on one side you have Trump essentially,

0:59.2

you know, agreeing to a pathway to citizenship

1:01.5

for DACA recipients.

1:03.4

And then on the other side, you have $25 billion

1:07.0

in border security, whether that's for the law

1:09.8

or other security measures.

1:11.7

And then you have pretty tight restrictions on legal

1:14.8

immigration in ways that we haven't seen in decades really being being proposed or by

1:20.9

a White House. So let's talk about the DACA legalization, which one point, basically saying anyone who's

1:27.9

on DACA or anyone that's DACA eligible, so it's about 1.8, you mentioned it 10 to 12 year pathway to citizenship, work

1:36.2

requirements, education, and then good moral character, Tarini. These DACA

1:42.2

recipients they're being portrayed as like, you know, the

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