Grassley, Cotton, Perdue Comment on Status of DACA Negotiations, Reiterate Parameters
WASHINGTON – Following yesterday’s meeting
with President Trump, administration officials and members of Congress to
discuss the future of DACA, border security and immigration enforcement, Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senators Tom Cotton and David
Perdue today made the following comments.
“We applaud
the president’s effort to foster an open dialogue on immigration between both
houses of Congress and both political parties, as he did yesterday. With the
President’s guidance, this diverse group agreed to four key items. The current
negotiations will focus on a solution to the DACA situation, increased border
security, ending chain migration, and eliminating the outdated Diversity Visa
Lottery. We feel it’s important to recognize that border security is more than
just infrastructure. Enforcement authorities must be improved so that federal
law officers can protect law abiding American citizens and immigrants.
Ultimately, these things must be addressed simultaneously in order to solve the
underlying problem from reoccurring in the future.”
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