Regent University founder Pat Robertson today urged President Trump to “do something to help” Dreamers, saying that “these people are not criminals. They’re teaching kindergarten, for heaven’s sake. They ought to stay. They enrich our society. They bless our society, and what have we got to lose?”

Robertson acknowledged that the future of Dreamers “now depends on what President Trump will do.”

“I really think we ought to do something to help those people,” he said in a segment on the Christian Broadcasting Network, adding that “they’re certainly not criminals.”

 

Below is the text of Pat Robertson’s comments on Dreamers:

“There is one thing that is coming up that touches your heart, and you just question whether our dear president has got it right in relation to what are called the Dreamers. These people they’re young illegal immigrants, who came into the U.S. before their 16th birthday, and President Obama gave them temporary protection. And their future now depends on what President Trump will do.”

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“I really think we ought to do something to help those people. If somebody comes to this country and has children, and the children are born here, they’re citizens. They have a 3-year-old child who wasn’t born here, who has lived his whole life here, he is not a citizen. That makes no sense. And they’re certainly not criminals. … But these people are not criminals. They’re teaching kindergarten, for heaven’s sake. They ought to stay. They enrich our society. They bless our society, and what have we got to lose? I think the Donald will do the right thing when that word is brought to him.”