Some conservative commentators sounded off on Wednesday night about President Donald Trump's latest deal with Democrats.
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Conservatives are ripping Trump over bipartisan DACA deal
Breitbart News, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and other conservatives are reacting to Trump's DACA deal with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced their agreement with Trump that would protect certain unauthorized immigrants as part of a broader border security plan.
Shortly after, Breitbart News featured a splash on its website that read, 'Amnesty Don,' with an article titled, "Trump Caves In on DACA," referring to the preliminary bipartisan agreement to codify protections outlined in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and address border-security issues.
Citing its own conversations with what it called "immigration patriots," Breitbart said "any immigration deal on DACA that includes amnesty would be an 'outrageous selling out of the [Trump] base.'"
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Trump campaigned heavily on a hard-line approach to illegal immigration, promising a wall along the US-Mexico border and vowing to deport millions of people living in the US illegally.
Some conservative commentators made clear they are not happy with Trump's bipartisan pivot:
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- Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson wrote
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that "excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to."
DACA is the Obama-era program that protects some 800,000 people living in the US illegally from being deported and allows them to work legally. Many in the program were brought to the US as young children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had announced last week that the program would be phased out within six months, giving Congress time to act on the issue.
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A White House official said the trio also discussed tax reform, infrastructure, and trade issues. A separate statement from the White House called the deal "a positive step toward the President's strong commitment to bipartisan solutions for the issues most important to all Americans."
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