Trump Urges DHS to Pursue Immigration Talks, Rules Out Amnesty for 500,000 DACA Recipients
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 9
Trump Urges DHS to Pursue Immigration Talks, Rules Out Amnesty for 500,000 DACA Recipients
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 9
Summary
Markwayne Mullin said Donald Trump wants him to start working with Democrats who have approached DHS about immigration legislation in the new Congress and later meet with them.
Mullin said those talks do not signal any shift in enforcement: he and Trump have not discussed changing current policy, and he said the administration will "never" allow amnesty.
DACA emerged as the clearest area for possible legislation, with Mullin saying Congress could consider a pathway to permanent legal status for recipients brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
That marked Mullin's first public suggestion of permanent status for DACA recipients, softening a harder DHS line from March that stressed DACA confers no legal status and noted ICE had arrested 264 recipients in 2025.
The opening to Democrats follows Trump's post-midterm signals of interest in immigration dealmaking, even after he elevated hardline adviser Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff.