Immigration challenge from Trump puts Congress on the spot
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's announcement on immigration has Congress staring down an election-year deadline on an issue that bitterly divides the president's own party, and that has painfully eluded lawmakers time and again.
Four years after comprehensive immigration legislation passed the Senate only to die in the House, Trump tossed to Congress the question of what to do with almost 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. His attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced that the administration will begin dismantling protections these immigrants were granted by former President Barack Obama, and the program will end unless Congress acts first.