Trump's ignorance about DACA is stunning

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(CNN) With his Easter tweets, the President has displayed his ignorance of immigration laws, including those governing the DACA program. His social media outburst was at best uninformed, and at worst blatantly misleading.

Let’s recall, he was the one who ended DACA, the program that allowed roughly 800,000 young people brought here illegally as children, known as the Dreamers, to live and work openly.

The President unilaterally began the unwinding of this program in September, with no plan to replace it, and since then has rejected several bipartisan proposals that would have provided a legislative fix for the plight of the Dreamers.

Referring to what he regards as unchecked illegal entries at our southern border, the President tweeted, “These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!”

What is particularly startling about Trump’s comments this weekend is that he suggests that people are coming to the US to take advantage of the DACA program. But Trump officially wanted DACA ended on March 5. And to be eligible for DACA, applicants must have lived in the US since 2007, have arrived before age 16, and been younger than 31 in June 2012.

New arrivals are not eligible for DACA – so to suggest that people are coming here to obtain the program’s protections is simply wrong.

Trump’s Easter tweets about immigration were nonsense. That the President, who holds so much power over the lives of the Dreamers and other immigrants, seemingly lacks basic knowledge about immigration policy is as troubling as it is astonishing.

 
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Stunning, embarrassing, disconcerting, disturbing, and sad.
 
If Obama thought there were 800,000 and Trump thinks there are well over a million and nobody argues otherwise, it’s fairly clear that nobody knows exactly how many are eligible for that status. Some did, indeed, register during Obama’s administration, but I think it’s fairly well known that many did not. If that’s true, then many who are eligible for the status are simply unknown.

And if that’s so, then there can still be people come into this country who may claim DACA status. If we don’t even know who they all are, then we can’t know who might claim the status falsely.
 
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Yes. The Democrat point of view, or at least that’s what they’ll say.

But the fact is, Trump offered a deal and they wouldn’t take it. They had their program and he wouldn’t agree.

So, no deal happened.
 
It is not uncommon for people who limit their education about immigration to a narrow, biased set of sources to have a distorted view of immigration.

When they sit down and look at unfiltered facts it can cause them to reject the facts because they have always been told the “moon is made of green cheese”.
 
Ridgerunner said:
And if that’s so, then there can still be people come into this country who may claim DACA status. If we don’t even know who they all are, then we can’t know who might claim the status falsely.
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You don’t just get to say magically claim you’re eligible for DACA. You have to provide proof, generally in the form of school records and proof of employment. No one is able to fake their DACA eligibility.
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But the fact is, Trump offered a deal and they wouldn’t take it. They had their program and he wouldn’t agree.

So, no deal happened.
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i.e., Trump is holding 800,000-1 million Americans hostage for some unknown political reason.
 
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TheLittleLady said:
It is not uncommon for people who limit their education about immigration to a narrow, biased set of sources to have a distorted view of immigration.

When they sit down and look at unfiltered facts it can cause them to reject the facts because they have always been told the “moon is made of green cheese”.
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Yes, but one should also not assume that, just because President Trump sends out Tweets that appear to be inconsistent with the facts (or representing “alternative facts”) that he is ignorant, or does not know what he is doing. He can throw out any amount of misinformation to his base and they will gobble it up! He loves to fan the flames and distract from real issues that can and should be addressed.

I have never heard of anything as unprofessional as firing someone on a Tweet, but this President is setting new standards.
 
As is his ignorance in foreign affairs, the legislative process, the face that the cabinet serves by answering to the Constitution and not to him, and that women are not objects of gratification for the rich and famous.
 
The Dreamers, of course. I know an extremist fringe doesn’t consider them Americans, but thankfully the vast majority of their fellow Americans are in their corner.
 
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The Dreamers, of course. I know an extremist fringe doesn’t consider them Americans, but thankfully the vast majority of their fellow Americans are in their corner.
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An extremist fringe. 🤣
They are not American citizens or we wouldn’t have such a “crisis “. The sad thing is they could be.
I’m actually in favor of a pathway to citizenship, but the Democrats are more interested in an issue and open borders than what’s right for these people. The deal was there but they just can’t seem to do what’s right.
 
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Oh, just the general confusion these young people are feeling about whether or not they will suddenly be deported, that’s all.
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They can thank Schumer and the rest of the Democrats who are more interested in an issue, and desirous of a new voting block than doing what’s right by these folks.
 
JonNC said:
I’m actually in favor of a pathway to citizenship, but the Democrats are more interested in an issue and open borders than what’s right for these people. The deal was there but they just can’t seem to do what’s right.
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The prospect of the “deal” only exists because Trump is disgustingly using these people’s lives as bargaining chips, and then rejecting the deals when they’re worked out.
 
lmachine said:
The Dreamers, of course. I know an extremist fringe doesn’t consider them Americans, but thankfully the vast majority of their fellow Americans are in their corner.
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many of them don’t claim to be american. why should anyone else?
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Oh, just the general confusion these young people are feeling about whether or not they will suddenly be deported, that’s all.
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why didn’t the dems agree to the amnesty deal?
trump offered more people than schumer wanted?
daca was only supposed to be a temporay program
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The prospect of the “deal” only exists because Trump is disgustingly using these people’s lives as bargaining chips, and then rejecting the deals when they’re worked out.
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he offered 1.8 million amnnesty
didn’t schumer and the dems reject the deal?
 
lmachine said:
The prospect of the “deal” only exists because Trump is disgustingly using these people’s lives as bargaining chips, and then rejecting the deals when they’re worked out.
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The disgusting people involved here are the demagogues in the Democrat Party. The have no intention to do what’s right because they care only about their power, not these people.
We’ve seen it time and again. They play their little game of identity politics, pitting Americans against each other for the sole purpose of maintaining power.
All they have to do is deal with the issue. Secure the border, take care of these people who have known no place but the United States.
 
I can tell just from the title that Donald J. Trump is winning. 😂🤣
 
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