Trump opens the door to a migration agreement but sets a limit: there will be no amnesty for undocumented immigrants

For the first time, President Donald Trump seems open to negotiating an immigration deal with the Democrats in Congress. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, told reporters on Monday that the president has asked him to work with the Democrats on "immigration reform."

"I have made it clear to the president that those calls are coming in, and the president has said: 'Let's start working with them and then meet at some point'", explained Mullin, whose department handles the federal government's deportation policy.

Mullin insisted that Trump instructed him not to negotiate with the Democrats, under any circumstances, an amnesty for undocumented individuals currently living in the United States. Instead, the president seeks to strike a deal with the opposition so that immigrants who arrived illegally in the US as children (grouped under the DACA program) can stay.

"We will never allow amnesty to happen. Now, if we want to have an immigration reform where we can look at DACA and find a way for these people to maybe become legal permanent citizens or something like that, that will be up to Congress", detailed Mullin.

On Sunday night, Trump gave an interview to the correspondent of the 60 Minutes program, journalist Ross Douthat. During their conversation, the Republican mogul stated that he would like to do something to help the undocumented individuals present in the country.

"I would love to do something about immigration," Trump told Douthat, adding that his deportation policy "may have been too harsh." In turn, the president suggested that some illegal immigrants who have been in the United States for over a decade should be allowed to stay.

"Get the murderers out, get all the violent people out, get the drug traffickers out, but for the people who are here and, in some cases, have been here for 10 and 15 years, let's make a deal", summarized Trump.