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No One Can Trust Trump on Immigration
He says he wants to protect Dreamers. Both his critics and his supporters are suspicious.
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What doesn’t Donald Trump understand about the word “illegal”?
That’s the gist of some right-wing reaction to the president’s comments in an interview with the Associated Press last week. The sticking point is Trump’s position on Dreamers, the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, and who were shielded from deportation by executive actions signed by President Barack Obama.