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I think it’s important to be somewhat skeptical of President Trump’s comments whether they are in tweets or whether they come out of his mouth. He has shown himself to be remarkably uninterested, meandering from point A to point B and unperturbed in completely flipping his positions. This is the logical result of being largely ideologically vacuous and not having an understanding of the impact of the many decisions that he and his administration are making.

Today, he sent a tweet saying that folks who have DACA don’t have anything to worry about. It’s ludicrous to say that. Folks who have DACA have a lot to worry about. They have their lives to worry about. To quote him he says, “You have nothing to worry about.” That suggests at best that he has no idea what the impact of his administration’s decision is. Will Congress act? Who knows? Congress has shown itself consistently incapable of doing exactly what it is now in their court to do.

I don’t think that the history of the DREAM Act suggests that we ought to be particularly hopeful. I do think that this is an opportunity for advocates and activists to push Congress to take the morally and economically sound position and provide legalization for these young people without determining a group of people to exclude. DACA is a remarkably narrow program that excludes all kinds of people who are just ordinary human beings. I hope that Congress takes a more expansive view of that or, at least, that activists push Congress to do that.