Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Trump Dumps Dreamers on a Hapless Congress

The nearly 800,000 people who won't "rest easy" in the hands of a chaotic, fractious GOP.

September 5, 2017 at 4:10 PM EDT

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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The mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Trumpworld on the fate of almost 800,000 "Dreamers" will soon be complemented and echoed by mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Republican members of Congress and from Republican-aligned, nominally pro-immigrant business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

It turns out that President Donald Trump, who in the spring said Dreamers should "rest easy," didn't actually mean it. Trump issued a written statement announcing the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program initiated by President Barack Obama in 2012.

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