Republican rebels in House maneuver to seek protection for Dreamers

Eighteen GOP members signed a petition to force an immigration debate in the House but Paul Ryan said it would only produce legislative ‘show ponies’

A renegade group of centrist Republicans in Congress are maneuvering around their leadership in an effort to introduce immigration reforms to secure legal protections for young, undocumented people in the United States.

The Republican-led effort follows a failure of Congress to act on immigration reform after Donald Trump cancelled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), an Obama-era program that extended protections from deportation to nearly 700,000 immigrants brought to the US as children.

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