Wednesday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said a deal was made on protecting younger immigrants from deportation following a White House dinner with President Donald Trump. The supposed deal, along with no Republican leaders being invited, angered Conservatives and their constituents, but Trump fired back at those reports saying no deal was made.

Trump tweeted Thursday that "massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent" of the immigration protection. The deal would also be subject to a vote.

A deal would have consecrated protections for the nearly 800,000 immigrants brought to this country illegally as kids who had benefited from former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which provided temporary work permits and shielded recipients from deportation.

Trump ended the program earlier this month, receiving strong blowback from Democrats. He gave Congress six months to come up with a legislative fix before the statuses of the so-called "Dreamers" begin to expire.

"We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides," Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement Wednesday.

Repealing the ACA (Obamacare), tax reform, deporting illegal immigrants, and building the wall, were major components of Trump's presidential campaign as he promised to get things done fairly quickly, but has failed so far. As for the wall, the White House quickly denied the suggestion that Trump's long-sought border was put in peril at the meeting. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said over Twitter that "excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to."

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said that at the dinner, "the president was clear he would press for the wall but separate from this agreement."

In any event, the meeting marked the second time that the president shut out Republican lawmakers from a meeting with Democrats. Trump, who was very disappointed by Republicans' failure to make good on years of promises to repeal Obamacare, infuriated many in his party last week when he reached a three-month deal with Schumer and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling, keep the government running and speed relief to states affected by recent hurricanes.

Trump wants legislation on DACA to be a bipartisan effort and said he would be open to separating the wall issue from the question of the younger immigrants, as long as the wall got dealt with eventually. The building of the wall has been a major point of contention between Republicans and Democrats as far as funding. Trump initially said Mexico would pay for it, but Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto made it clear that his country would not fund the project. Trump, continues to press Nieto but also has called on Congress to allow for its funding, which is a major issue for Democrats.

Trump initially appeared unwilling to work with the Democrats, but now it seems he's ready and willing to deal despite his tweets to the contrary and much to the dismay of his supporters.

Check out his tweets above.

Source: abc13.com