White House Makes Hard-Line Demands for Any ‘Dreamers’ Deal<br />Before agreeing to provide legal status for 800,000 young immigrants brought here illegally as children, Mr. Trump will insist on the construction of a wall across the southern border, the hiring of 10,000 immigration agents, tougher laws for those seeking asylum<br />and denial of federal grants to “sanctuary cities,” officials said.<br />Also central to the effort, officials said, are legal changes<br />that would strip away the rights of illegal immigrants to claim asylum or make another case to stay in the United States, allowing federal officials to more quickly deport them.<br />WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday delivered to Congress a long list of hard-line immigration measures<br />that President Trump is demanding in exchange for any deal to protect the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers, imperiling a fledgling bipartisan push to reach a legislative solution.<br />Mr. Schumer and Ms. Pelosi, who declared after a White House dinner last month<br />that they had reached a deal with Mr. Trump to protect Dreamers, denounced the president’s demands as failing to “represent any attempt at compromise.” They called it little more than a thinly veiled effort to scuttle negotiations even before they begin in earnest.<br />The White House is also demanding the use of the E-Verify program by companies to keep illegal immigrants from getting jobs, an end to people bringing their extended family into the United States,<br />and a hardening of the border against thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America.<br />But a White House official said on Sunday that Mr. Trump was not open to a deal<br />that would eventually allow the Dreamers to become United States citizens.<br />Administration officials responsible for securing the border and enforcing the nation’s immigration laws told reporters on Sunday night<br />that the changes requested by the president were essential to protecting American workers from unfair competition and deterring what they described as a never-ending flow of illegal immigrants into the country.
