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Trump Budget Takes Broad Aim at Undocumented Immigrants
« on: May 26, 2017, 03:18:29 pm »
Trump Budget Takes Broad Aim at Undocumented Immigrants

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and RON NIXON MAY 25, 2017
 
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s first budget offers up dramatic policy shifts and hundreds of millions of dollars to clamp down on undocumented immigrants living in the United States, denying them tax credits, jobs and haven while funding a deportation force and flights home for those being removed.

The proposals, part of the $4.1 trillion blueprint the White House released Tuesday, offer the clearest indication yet of how Mr. Trump, who campaigned on a promise to build a southern border wall to keep immigrants from illegally entering the United States and hunt down and banish those who are already here, intends to carry out his crackdown. In a budget marked by steep cuts to social safety net programs, it is one of the few areas besides the military where the president proposes to increase

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/us/politics/undocumented-immigrants-trump-budget-wall.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
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