U.S. President Donald Trump presented a bill to his Cabinet on Tuesday aimed at boosting border security and overhauling the current immigration system to make it more merit-based, a senior administration official said.
With U.S. lawmakers' August recess looming, the official did not give a timetable for introducing the bill to Congress, but described it as laying out the president's vision to rally Republicans around a detailed proposal.
The president will meet with Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy later on Tuesday to map out a way forward, the official added, requesting anonymity.