President Trump insists that the changes to immigration law he's proposing in exchange for protecting DREAMers — a nickname for those illegally brought to America as children — would make our country's immigration system, like Canada's, more merit-based. That would be awesome if it were true. Unfortunately, it is a complete lie.

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