Donald Trump urged Republican politicians on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November mid-term elections, which he hopes will boost the party's majority in Congress.
Mr Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their migrant parents at the US border with Mexico, tried to refocus the immigration debate on Congress in a series of posts on Twitter.
Despite Republican control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the party's slim 51-49 majority in the latter chamber makes some Democratic support necessary to pass most legislation..