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Trump Rejects Amnesty for Child Immigrants as Shutdown Enters Day 30

© AP Photo / Ramon EspinosaMigrants cross the river at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past a line of Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018
Migrants cross the river at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past a line of Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said Sunday he would only offer amnesty for immigrants who had entered the country illegally as children as part of a bigger deal with Democrats after they rejected his new offer to trade protections for wall funding to end the federal government shutdown.

"Amnesty is not a part of my offer. It is a 3 year extension of DACA. Amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal, whether on immigration or something else. Likewise there will be no big push to remove the 11,000,000 plus people who are here illegally," Trump tweeted.

Honduran migrants help each other to cross over the U.S. border wall to San Diego, California, from Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 - Sputnik International
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​In a much-touted statement on Saturday, Trump said he was ready to give migrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy and those holding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) a three-year reprieve from deportation in exchange for $5.7 billion in border security funds.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the concession as a "non-starter," saying the Democrats wanted a permanent solution for DACA and TPS recipients.

In a series of tweets, Trump taunted Pelosi, whom he branded the "Radical Democrat," saying she was behaving irrationally. He added he was still thinking about delivering the state-of-the-union address and promised to "get back to you soon," after Pelosi pressed to postpone the speech during the federal government shutdown, which has gone into day 30.

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