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Trump's threats may push Congress to do right by 'Dreamers'

My, my, politics in the age of Trump can be baffling.

President Donald Trump, a man who loves to bully and threaten, may actually have done a huge favor to one of his favorite scapegoats -- undocumented immigrants -- by threatening to deport them.

Specifically, he threw out the possibility that 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as minors may have to be deported. That has forced some of his fellow Republicans to muster some courage.

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