SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump is trying to sell a promise not to deport U.S. citizens as a shutdown concession even though federal immigration law already forbids it. The eyebrow-raising offer from the White House came in a March 17 letter sent as part of negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. In it, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, 64, and White House legislative affairs director James Braid laid out five supposed administration “improvements.” Read more at The Daily Beast.