https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...migrant-shield

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President Donald Trump faces a fight within his own party over whether he should immediately end deportation relief for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, a central part of his campaign pledge to take a harder line on illegal immigration.

Trump is set to begin issuing a set of executive actions related to immigration, but it’s not clear his early steps will affect deportation protections for about 750,000 young immigrants granted under a 2012 executive order by former President Barack Obama.

John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican leader, said this week that a bipartisan proposal allowing a three-year extension of the protections doesn’t go far enough. He said he favors a permanent resolution as part of a broader effort to bolster the U.S.-Mexico border.


"Why don’t we just fix it, rather than kick the can down the road?” he said.

But congressional Republicans’ leading immigration hardliner, Representative Steve King of Iowa, said Trump needs to cancel Obama’s order, saying the president’s decision on the matter will be a defining one for the rest of his term.

"He’s got to keep his word, or his presidency will be rendered toothless and ineffective and non-credible for the duration," King said.

The young immigrants provided information including fingerprints and relatives’ home addresses when they applied for protection under Obama’s order, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. They received renewable, two-year work permits and Social Security cards as part of the program.

Obama took his action after Congress stalled for years on legislation called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or Dream Act, which would have provided a path to legal status.