President dumps Dreamers on a hapless US Congress

Handing the immigration hot potato to a chaotic, factionalised majority party on Capitol Hill

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 the US Congress and from Republican-aligned, nominally pro-immigrant business groups such as the US Chamber of Commerce.

It turns out 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 programme initiated by Barack Obama in 2012.