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Posted: 2017-09-14T20:06:39Z | Updated: 2017-09-14T20:06:39Z

WASHINGTON As President Donald Trump sends mixed signals about how he wants to help young undocumented immigrants and Republican leaders make vague pronouncements about taking action, Democrats are clear on what they want to do: pass the Dream Act.

Democratic leaders are insisting in every conversation with the speaker, with the president, with the Dreamers, that it will be the Dream Act, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a press conference on Thursday.

They view the bill, which would grant legal status to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and are now undocumented so-called Dreamers as the best solution after Trump put hundreds of thousands of them at risk of deportation by ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. And Democrats believe they can get Trump on board or that they already have.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Trump privately agreed to support the Dream Act. Pelosi said as much to HuffPost in a Tuesday interview, too.

Both of the top Democrats even got their own dinner with the president on Wednesday, and emerged with victorious talk of an agreement by Trump to support enshrining DACA protections into law.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) werent invited. Instead, Trump updated them on what happened in a Thursday call.

Details on what a final DACA deal might look like are still murky. Trump is insisting on attaching increased border security to whatever agreement they reach, and hes made vague comments about making Dreamer protections contingent on funding for border wall, which Democrats firmly oppose. And despite his apparent private support for the Dream Act, its not clear if Trumps ready to get behind it publicly.

On Thursday, Trump said he was not looking at citizenship or amnesty. GOP leaders, too, havent said if they can accept the bill or if theyll push for something more palatable to conservatives.

Democrats in the House are pushing to get a vote on the floor, even if it means forcing a vote through a discharge petition, should Ryan refuse to bring up the bill. If they went that route, though, they would need at least two dozen Republicans to join all Democrats in bypassing GOP leadership and forcing a floor vote. Their goal is to get a vote on the bill, whatever it takes. Pelosi said Thursday theres no question that if we put the bill on the floor, it would win.

The Dream Act has bipartisan support in both chambers, although it skews Democratic, particularly in the House, where sponsors recently lifted an informal rule that lawmakers could only join in pairs of one Republican and one Democrat. The House Dream Act now has the support of almost every House Democrat, as well four Republicans after picking up two more supporters on Wednesday: GOP Reps. David Valadao and Jeff Denham of California.

In the Senate, four Republicans and six Democrats are co-sponsoring the Dream Act . Democrats would need 12 Republicans to join them in voting for the bill to avoid a filibuster.