WASHINGTON _ Lawmakers working toward a border security deal have already taken one negotiating point off the table _ protections for thousands of young people known as "Dreamers" who were brought to America as children.
According to two members of the negotiating committee, that program _ Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA _ is not under consideration as lawmakers try to craft a border deal that can win support in Congress and President Donald Trump's signature, averting another government shutdown.
"To bring other issues in, it would be the president and the (House and Senate party) leaders and they haven't done it," Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, when asked if the committee was considering DACA as part of the negotiations. He said the group is strictly "talking about border security."
