have speaker ryan saying that he has a political will to do this. the senate has also indicated that. president trump is also publicly saying that he wants to get something done legislatively. that s the good news. the bad news is congress track record of really getting anything done also daca being maybe eighth on the list of all the other things to do. and daca, potentially, being linked to the border wall, as hallie was saying earlier. so, there s good and bad. i think they re as good a shot as last time. a dream act passed that house, senate and the white house are onboard with it. so, fingers crossed, craig. victoria, alan, a big thanks to both of you. do appreciate your time here now this afternoon. again, any minute now, a live white house press briefing will start. the first chance to ask questions about the president s decision on the dreamer program.
enable the department of homeland security to fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time period for congress to act, should it so choose. let s start with our chief house correspondent hallie jackson. let s start with the policy. tell us more about it and what it now means for the 800,000 or so who are currently covered by it. so, we know a couple things here, craig, and then a couple pieces to the puzzle we simply don t know yet. we know these permits, essentially, that these daca recipients are in the united states and will expire on a rolling basis. no new entrance into the program either. not giving out any permits either. the questionmark comes into what happens if congress does not, in fact, use this six-month window, excuse me, to find some kind of a legislative solution to what should happen to the so-called dreamers who are here. if nothing happens, right. if in six months from now, you
and i are having these exact same conversations then the roughly 800,000 people who are here under daca will be then, according to senior official at homeland security be treated as any other undocumented immigrant in this country. what does that mean? i.c.e. priortuization are for those who committed other crimes, in addition to being in this country illegally. dreamers would fall under that sort of provision. there is a question, has been a question about personal information. remember when these folks signed up for this program they gave information to the government. that information is not going to be given and used in deportations although it will be provided if it is requested by law enforcement. also a question to what happens to daca recipients in the military and referring folks to the pentagon for that. we re working on an answer. still a lot of questions here for those 800,000 dreamers. chief among them is, what is congress going to do? by the way, what would the president