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Rep. Mike Coffman and the Problem Solvers roll out budget-for-DACA proposal

By JOEY BUNCH 01/29/2018 | updated 8 years ago

The Problem Solvers Caucus, the bipartisan group 48 members of Congress, including Republican Rep. Mike Coffman of Aurora, put out its own budget proposal Monday, including a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

President Trump signed an executive ordered in September phasing out the program for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

The deal includes $2.7 billion to improve border security. That’s a long way from the $25 billion for a border wall Trump asked for in a counter proposal to Senate negotiators last Thursday.

The Problem Solvers Caucus has an “agreement on a set of principles that support a long-term, fiscally-responsible budget deal and a proposal to resolve DACA while continuing to make America’s borders strong and secure,” Coffman’s office said Monday morning.

Coffman led on the immigration talks, his office said.

“This bipartisan proposal shows that Republicans and Democrats can work together to find common ground on border security and DACA to help the young people who were taken to the United States illegally as children,” Coffman said in a statement

The Problem Solvers’ agreement supports an overall budget cap that eliminate sequestration cuts for two years and paying for any increase of the discretionary budget caps.

In exchange, Dreamers would have an “earned” pathway to citizenship. The new deal also would eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery pool of green cards and shift that allocation of visas to tradition programs, as well as amending the family or “chain” migration program, an immigration method Trump also has opposed.

In this Sept. 29, 2014 photo, U.S. Rep. and current incumbent candidate Mike Coffman of Aurora speaks at a rally at Heritage High School,.. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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