White House divided on protecting Dreamers: report

Key White House figures divided over whether to overturn former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, according to Reuters.

President Trump’s advisers are split on the policy, which protects children who came to the U.S. illegally, known as “dreamers.”

The split is between Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, who both have a more conservative stance on immigration, and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, according to the report. Bannon is Trump’s chief strategist, while Miller serves as his policy adviser.

{mosads}Trump has signaled he may not overturn DACA, telling ABC News in an interview this week that dreamers “shouldn’t be very worried” and that a policy addressing the issue would come soon.

“They shouldn’t be very worried. They are here illegally. They shouldn’t be very worried. I do have a big heart. We’re going to take care of everybody,” he said in the interview.

“Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried. We’ll be coming out with policy on that over the next period of four weeks,” he added.

Trump on Wednesday signed two executive orders on immigration. One called for the construction of wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The other order terminated the “catch and release” policy, which sent people who crossed the border back to Mexico instead of arresting them.