Immigration security

Homeland security chief backs Trump in split over Dreamer deportation

When Donald Trump and his attorney general contradict each other on immigration policy, listen to the president.

That was the answer of the secretary of homeland security, John Kelly, on Sunday, when he was pressed on opposing statements from Trump and the immigration hardliner Jeff Sessions regarding the fate of undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children.

Asked if so-called Dreamers were subject to being deported, Kelly told CNN’s State of the Union: “I’d certainly go with what the president says.”

Sessions, however, was still not willing to agree that Dreamers could “rest easy”, as Donald Trump told reporters on Friday.

“Well, we’ll see,” Sessions said on ABC’s This Week. “I believe that everyone who enters the country unlawfully is subject to being deported.”