President Donald Trump spent his Easter railing against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, before finally declaring it dead this morning.
DACA is dead because the Democrats didn’t care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon… No longer works. Must build Wall and secure our borders with proper Border legislation. Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2018
The statement from the president comes almost a month after the program officially expired, although it has been kept on life support through various rulings from federal courts.
This morning, before attacking the program he willfully ended, Trump also went after “caravans” of people supposedly coming from Central America into the United States through Mexico, mistakenly saying Mexico needed to secure its northern border.
Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large “Caravans” of people enter their country. They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2018
Stopping them at the northern border would mean the caravans were coming from America into Mexico. The president most likely meant their southern border.
As many noticed, the tweet came after Fox & Friends ran a segment on 1,200 people who are seeking asylum in Mexico City, speculating about whether “two-thirds” of them would come to the U.S. via “caravans.”
RUSHING THE BORDER: Caravan of immigrants headed for the U.S. demand open borders pic.twitter.com/H3nTOvk2lp
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) April 2, 2018
Trump also tweeted about caravans on Sunday, calling them a hindrance to a DACA deal. On Sunday, though, he correctly stated the issue was at Mexico’s southern border.
Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018
Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018
These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018
This morning, Trump also casually demanded an end to the filibuster, so the Senate could pass border legislation he wanted.