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Trump: willing to have a conversation about citizenship for DACA recipients, says WH.

Judy Woodruff:

Well, let’s talk about that separate issue, the DACA recipients, these young people who came to this country with their parents, without documentation, but, again, as you say, through no fault of their own.

Sarah Sanders, the White House spokesperson, said today that the president is now prepared to accept permanent residency, a permanent solution for them. What does that mean? Does that mean citizenship?

Marc Short:

The president is willing to have a conversation about citizenship, Judy.

I think that, in addition to that, so far in the negotiations, where we have moved is that Democrats have said that the 690,000 people who have those DACA permits that are age 16 to 36, who have those DACA work permits, that has been a discussion so far. But Democrats have asked us to expand that to include others in there and including something closer to the number in the full DREAM Act.

We have said we’re willing to do that, Judy. So, we think there’s actually a lot of significant progress on our side to the things that they have asked for. In addition, it seems that Democrats have had a lot more willingness to talk about the needs we have on border security that Customs and Border Patrol has said is needed to help secure the southern border.

So we see progress. It was all the more reason we were confounded by why Democrats decided to shut down the government when there was progress going on in the negotiations.

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