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Democrats reject Trump's effort to use immigrant children as a bargaining chip to end government shutdown

US DEMOCRATS have dismissed proposals by President Donald Trump in which they would agree to fund his border wall in return for his extending temporary protections for people brought to the US illegally as children.

Mr Trump’s offer was a bid to end the longest government shutdown in US history. Polls show that a majority of voters blame him and the Republican Party for a crisis in which a quarter of government departments have ceased to function and hundreds of thousands of public servants denied pay.

The Democrat leader in the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said the offer was merely “a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives.”

“What is original in the president’s proposal is not good. What is good in the proposal is not original,” she tweeted.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer also panned the proposal as “more hostage-taking,” saying that it was Mr Trump alone who had imperiled the future of the immigrants he proposed to help.

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