The Senate is preparing for an open debate on immigration Monday, a process complicated by the uncertainty of President Trump's position on the subject. Though Trump's campaign rhetoric favored hard-line policy, most vividly the border wall proposal, in office he has both promised to sign any "bill of love" Congress creates and rejected multiple congressional proposals.
The White House said Saturday the administration is working with Senate allies on a plan to approve 4 million stalled green card applications while making a path to citizenship for 1.8 million people illegally brought to the U.S. as children. These changes "would effectively make up for the cuts in other immigration categories for about 13 years," an unnamed White House official told the Los Angeles Times. So far, the compromise is unpopular among immigration activists at both ends of the spectrum.
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