Carter: Trump’s Approach To Immigration Law Not ‘Hopeless Cause’

Former President Jimmy Carter spoke Wednesday at Atlanta’s Emory University. His topics included immigration and health care.

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President Donald Trump has an unlikely defender of his approach to immigration law: former President Jimmy Carter.

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Speaking to Georgia college students, the 39th president expressed optimism Wednesday that Trump might break a legislative logjam with his controversial six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.