WASHINGTON _ A group of immigration advocates is planning to meet Thursday with Vice President Mike Pence and top adviser and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner to see if there is a way to trade funding for President Trump's border wall in exchange for protections of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to the country illegally by their parents.
Trump may also "pop in" to the meeting being organized with officials from the League of United Latin American Citizens, Libre Initiative, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and other immigrant advocacy groups, said people familiar with the planning.
On Saturday, Trump spoke from the Oval Office and offered Democrats a three-year extension of protections for roughly 700,000 so-called Dreamers and hundreds of thousands of more people with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for $5.7 billion in border wall funding and other enforcement and humanitarian assistance.
