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Ryan’s Immigration Task Force Searches for DACA Solution

By Bo Huttinger
Posted September 22, 2017 at 8:50pm

By Lindsey McPherson and Dean DeChiaro and D.A. Banks and Thomas McKinless

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President Donald Trump has given Congress six months to come up with a legislative solution to the Obama-era program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Roll Call reporters Lindsey McPherson and Dean DeChiaro discuss the challenge of getting to a compromise that a majority of Republicans in the House can agree on.

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