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Trump's path to citizenship for 1.8 mn will leave out half of all Dreamers

In a recent proposal, President Donald Trump has offered to provide a path to legalization for 1.8 million Dreamers

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Which “Dreamers” will be given legal recourse to stay in the U.S., and which ones will be left out?
This is the central question surrounding current debate in Washington over a group of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. The scramble for a solution has taken on greater urgency since the Trump administration announced that DACA would be phased out and ended in March 2018. That deadline is currently on hold due to a federal court ruling – but a battle in Congress over the Dreamers’ fate closed the federal government for 69 hours

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