President Donald Trump demanded today that Congress pass new border legislation using the "Nuclear Option if necessary" to muscle it through the Senate, a drastic change in rules the Republican leader has previously dismissed.
Trump tweeted that the US must build a border wall, but argued that "Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!"
He also said that a deal to help "Dreamer" immigrants is "dead because the Democrats didn't care or act."
Trump did not explain what he meant when questioned by reporters as he entered the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea for an Easter Sunday service on Sunday, but again blamed Democrats for failing to protect the "Dreamers."
"The Democrats have really let them down," he added during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, adding: "It's a shame."
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