He has never till this date said "Dreamers are criminals." I'm not sure what you're referring to. What he's doing is in these tweets like when he says "Democrats want to shut down our govt for illegal criminals" is basically calming down his radical base...but nowhere has he said "Dreamers are criminals." Some words have to be said in order to make lazy Congress do its job. This is the problem. Its the people who are misconstruing what he says like idiots like Ann Coulter who thought he would be "deporting all Dreamers and every immigrant." So...he is playing to his base BY ALLUDING US AS CRIMINALS..would be a more appropriate statement to make if you still insist on it. The two are to serve the same purpose and that is to mislead his idiotic radical base.