Editorial Board
What Donald Trump Owes the Dreamers
His conspicuous silence about their future is counterproductive and cruel.
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Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is not generally the reticent type. When it comes to the fate of almost 800,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers, however, he has been unusually quiet.
Trump is under pressure from conservative state officials who are threatening to sue the federal government next week if he doesn’t end a 2012 program that enables so-called Dreamers -- young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children -- to live, study and work in the U.S. Meanwhile, immigration restrictionists have encouraged Trump to use the lives of Dreamers as a bargaining chip to get a border wall and more aggressive policies out of a reluctant Congress.