President Donald Trump outlined a plan to end the government shutdown on Saturday, offering congressional Democrats three years of legislative relief for 700,000 DACA recipients — including protection from deportation — and an extension of legal residence for people living in the country under 'Temporary Protective Status' designations.

He also offered $800 million in urgent humanitarian assistance and 75 new immigration teams to reduce the court backlog of 900,000 cases, which he called an 'impossible nightmare' in his late-afternoon remarks.

Speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Trump said he wants $5.7 billion for the 'strategic deployment of physical barriers, or a wall,' that he will use to put 'steel barriers in high-priority locations' along the U.S.-Mexico border.

'I want this to end. It's gotta end now,' he said, ending a pained crescendo about drugs and related crime waves that flow northward from Mexico.

'These are not talking points. These are the heartbreaking realities that are hurting innocent, precious human beings every single day on both sides of the border,' the president said.

It's unclear if rank-and-file Democrats will find the proposal enticing enough to pressure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring it to the floor. She called it a 'non-starter' before Trump's address.

In a briefing after Trump's speech, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said the president still has the authority to walk away from negotiating with Democrats and declare a national emergency on the border.

President Trump outlined a plan to end the government shutdown in a Saturday afternoon address, offering three years of legislative relief for 700,000 DACA recipients — including protection from deportation —and a reprieve for Temporary Protective Status awardees

Trump billed his 13-minute speech Saturday as a major step forward in ending the four-week-old government shutdown but that depends on how Democrats in Congress interpret it

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Trump's offer was a 'non-starter,' issuing a statement before Trump spoke

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters after Trump's speech that the president still has the power to declare a national emergency and build his border wall without any say-so from Congress

'I absolutely still believe that the national emergency is still a tool that's available to the president,' Mulvaney told DailyMail.com. 'He's just been very candid, very public in saying it's not his preferred course of action that's going to fix this, it's through legislation.'

That would be a precursor to diverting funds from the Pentagon and other agencies to the Army Corps of Engineers, which would dole out contracts and continue the border wall without congressional approval.

The president is putting forward a 'good faith proposal' to try to resolve the dispute legislatively, Vice President Mike Pence said at the same briefing, and included liberal priorities in his offer on Saturday.

He is offering protection for illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children and temporary protective status extensions after meeting last week with moderate Democrats.

DACA refers to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered a no-deportation guarantee to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants whose parents brought them into the U.S. as minors.

TPS is a Justice Department program that grants residency and work permits to people from 10 countries affected by natural disasters or brutal armed conflicts. They include El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan and Yemen.

The Trump administration moved last year to end TPS status for Salvadorans and Hondurans, ending two decades of protected status. Both groups would gain extensions under the proposal the White House offered Saturday.

Salvadorans comprise the largest group, more than 268,000. Hondurans were offered the programs benefits after Hurricane Mitch struck the Central American country in 1998. Protection for Haitians is scheduled to end later this year.

The president last year referred to some of those countries as 's***hole' nations in a closed-door meeting.

Pence said that he has embraced the program, however, and believes it's 'absolutely the right thing to do' to extend the protections for another three years.'

'The president very early added that to our proposal,' Pence told a reporter during a post-speech roundtable.

The vice president did not deny that Trump made the widely-publicized remark.

'I would really take issue with your characterization of the president's attitude about people who came here under temporary protective status of any background,' he said of the suggestion that Trump would try to kick them out when the provision expires.

Conservatives immediately slammed the proposal as 'amnesty' for immigrants that would only fuel the crisis.

James Carafano, a national security expert at the Trump-supporting Heritage Foundation, said in a statement, that Trump 'should be applauded' for pursuing an end to the government shutdown and better border security.

'However, including amnesty in the new proposal is not the way to do it. Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration, incentivizes the tragedy of human trafficking, and undermines our citizens' confidence in the rule of law,' he argued.

In a tweets, right-wing author and political commentator Ann Coulter went after Trump for offering 'amnesty' to illegal immigrants to fund 100 miles of border barriers.

'So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall,' she tweeted.

Trump's latest proposal comes as a new 'caravan' of migrants is streaming north from Central America, hoping to cross the U.S. border and request permanent asylum

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged Saturday to put Trump's proposal on the floor for a vote, but Democrats have enough members to block him unless the White House converts at least seven of their 47 into believers

Trump's re-election campaign sees the wall as a winning political issue and launched a fundraising drive Friday asking for donations to 'send a brick' to Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Pence stressed to reporters that the president is not offering 'amnesty' to TPS recipients or Dreamers, because their protections will end in three years, as liberals opposing the plan have complained.

'This is not an amnesty bill,' the former Indiana lawmaker said.

The vice president has been working with Mulvaney and Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president and Trump's son-in-law, at Trump's behest to come up with a legislative solution to the shutdown.

He said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell assured he and Kushner at a Thursday afternoon meeting that he would bring the president's proposal to the floor for a vote this week.

'Today's speech is very much intended to be a good faith proposal, incorporating ideas from both political parties to secure our border and end the partial government shutdown,' Pence said of Trump's offer to Democrats.

Kushner insisted that the president's proposal is a 'compromise solution' that could serve as a stepping stone to broad-based immigration reforms.

'Hopefully we'll get a successful vote and be able to end this shutdown,' he said.

Mulvaney was less than optimistic that the bill could clear an initial hurdle in the Senate, a motion to proceed to a vote on the bill.

'If the bill is filibustered on Tuesday, on the motion to proceed, people will not get paid,' he reminded.

He contended in response to a question from DailyMail.com that Democrats are holding up a bipartisan bill to pay members of the Coast Guard who have been working for a month without pay during the shutdown.

'So if Democrats are willing to stand in the way of that compromise, you know, but maybe things will be different, I hope that they will,' he mused.

TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION OFFER The president offered Democrats in Congress an immigration reform package on January 19, including some items from their wish-list. In exchange, he wants money to continue construction of a border wall that he has promised consistently since early 2015. The White House's proposal includes: $5.7 billion for a 'steel barrier system' along the U.S.-Mexico border

a three-year deportation reprieve for DACA recipients

a three-year extension of Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 people whose nations experienced disasters and war

$805 million for new technology, scanners, training, dogs and related staff to detect narcotics and guns

$800 million for humanitarian assistance and temporary housing

$782 million to hire 2,750 new border agents and other personnel

$563 million for immigration courts including 75 new 'immigration judge teams' Advertisement

Trump said Saturday that he was offering his compromise to 'break the logjam' over illegal immigration and provide a 'path forward to end a government shutdown.'

'It is time to reclaim our future from the extreme voices,' he said of liberals he's been haranguing for months over their alleged support for open borders. ''The radical left can never control our borders,' he later said.

In a slap at Pelosi, he declared: 'Walls are not immoral. In fact, they are the opposite of immoral.'

Trump said his compromise will provide the 'best chance in a very long time at real bipartisan immigration reform' in the U.S. Congress.

As it stands, America's immigration system is a 'source of shame,' he claimed, 'all over the world,' and 'not a symbol of unity' but one of government dysfunction.

'As a candidate for president, I promised I would fix this crisis, and I intend to keep that promise one way or the other. Our immigration system should be the subject of pride, not a source of shame, as it is all over the world. Our immigration system should be the envy of the world, not a symbol of disunity and dysfunction.

He promoted the plan as a 'common sense compromise' to conundrum that's been plaguing America for decades, even as he acknowledged t is 'not intended to solve all of our immigration challenges.'

President Trump (left), Vice President Mike Pence (right) and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (2nd right) held a Naturalization Ceremony earlier Saturday in the Oval Office, swearing in five new U.S. citizens

President Donald Trump pictured arriving back at the White House on Saturday before his government shutdown address where he will give Democrats his new offer

Trump hosted a Naturalization Ceremony for new citizens originally hailing from across the globe an hour before he doubled down on his request for border wall to keep migrants coming from Mexico out.

Vice President Mike Pence, the president's senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney are leading the charge on Capitol Hill to get the deal passed.

Democrats were already panning the deal as dead on arrival even before Trump delivered his remarks.

'First, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell must open the government today. Second, I cannot support the proposed offer as reported and do not believe it can pass the Senate,' Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said. 'Third, I am ready to sit down at any time after the government is opened and work to resolve all outstanding issues.'

Saturday Trump urged Pelosi to accept his offer, claiming she's 'controlled by the radical left'

Trump indicated earlier in the day that he would be making the case for his wall in the remarks.

'We need the help and the backup of a wall,' the president said earlier Saturday.

The president had been mulling a national security declaration but did not take the step that would invite a vigorous court challenge on Saturday afternoon. He instead revealed a new deal for Democrats in the national address that came a week after he walked out of a meeting with party leaders.

He hasn't met with Pelosi or Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer since. He appealed to congressional Democrats this week that are a part of an ad hoc group that advised him that he'd be best served by reopening the government, and then continue negotiations.

'I think it'll be an important statement,' Trump told reporters as he departed the White House to receive the bodies of four Americans who were killed last week in an ISIS attack in Syria.

Pelosi said prior to Trump's speech that his expected proposal was 'unacceptable' and compromised of previously rejected solutions.

His offer may support the Bridge Act which will help 740,000 DACA recipients - people who came to the U.S. illegally as children. Pro DACA and Dreamer supports pictured protesting outside the U.S. capital

The proposal may extend deportation reprieves for Dreamers in exchange for his controversial $5.7billion U.S.-Mexico border wall

DACA protesters pictured above protesting on January 15

'Democrats were hopeful that the President was finally willing to re-open government and proceed with a much-need discussion to protect the border,' she said.

'Unfortunately, initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.'

She noted that it doesn't include a 'permanent solution' for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children or for Temporary Protective Status program participants.

Pence acknowledged Saturday that Pelosi wasn't read-in on the president's proposal beforehand. He told DailyMail.com that she told the president in a meeting he walked out on more than a week ago that she wouldn't give him the wall, even if he met her immigration demands.

'So that frankly, you're talking about moments, at that point, the president directed us to begin to talk to rank and file members in the House and in the Senate,' he explained.

The VP told reporters he believed that once Democrats could generally get past their initial reactions, they'll see that Trump is sincerely trying to come to an arrangement on immigration.

'We're going to reach out to every Member of Congress, to the leadership, and I expect the American people are going to be reaching out to them,' he said of the effort.

He declined to say which Democrats in the Senate, where the bill will get its first vote, that the White House was pressuring directly.

Democrats had asked for $563 million to hire 75 more immigration judges and $524 million to put toward securing ports of entry.

They have agreed to more money for border security personnel and technology such as drones and sensors but not the border wall that is at the center of the dispute with the president.