For supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, President Donald Trump’s White House meeting with several congressional Democrats and Republicans Tuesday served as a remarkable moment in time, but can anyone trust that the president’s promise to “take the heat” and get it done?

Count us among those fully willing to give the immigration hardliner credit should he hold firm and see it through. When offered a friendly challenge from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to seek a path to citizenship for those already living in the country illegally, Trump responded: “If you want to take it that further step, I’ll take the heat. I will take all the heat. You are not that far away from comprehensive immigration reform.”

Yet call us skeptical. We worry we’ve been down this road before. Remember the Dreamers? The hundreds of thousands of young people who risked exposing themselves to federal scrutiny to take advantage of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals provisions? After Trump killed the Obama-era program early last fall, he appeared committed to seeing Congress pass legislation to preserve it, saying with typical fanfare that he had “great heart” for the Dreamers, only to later demand money for his border wall plans and other provisions that Democrats are unlikely to support.

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