Trump walls himself in on immigration

President Trump's signature campaign issue was his promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. Having shown new flexibility on both the border wall and amnesty for illegal immigrants, he may have fenced himself in on immigration.

But will he pay for it?

It's a question that has been on the mind of Trump's supporters and detractors ever since jubilant Democratic leaders emerged from a dinner meeting with the president claiming a breakthrough on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program was created by former President Obama's legally questionable executive order to shield children of illegal immigrants from deportation. Trump announced he was rescinding the order in six months, giving Congress time to address the question and resolve it with legislation.

"We had a very productive meeting at the White House with the president," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a joint statement. "The discussion focused on DACA. We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides."

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders immediately pushed back. "While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to," she said, adding that the Democrats' characterization of the meeting was oversimplified, if not misleading. The rough contours of an agreement were in place, but there was no deal yet that could serve as actionable legislation.