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Trump's New Immigration Plan Doesn't Address Undocumented Immigrants

President Trump will announce the new immigration proposal on Thursday. It would keep legal immigration levels the same but dramatically change who would be let in.
President Trump with Border Patrol agents at the Rio Grande as a Customs and Border Protection helicopter flies over near McAllen, Tex., on Jan. 10, 2019.

In a Rose Garden address on Thursday, President Trump will lay out the details of an immigration proposal that would dramatically reshape the legal immigration system in the United States. But it doesn't address the pressing challenge of what to do about the estimate 11 million people currently in the country illegally, one of the core issues that has animated Trump's presidency.

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been quietly working on the plan for months and briefed Republican senators on the

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