Early this morning Donald Trump began the holiday with a two-word positive tweet. HAPPY EASTER (his caps.) But then it went quickly downhill. He blasted Democrats for the so-called catch and release program that allows immigrants from some Central American countries to gain entry into the U.S. while applying for asylum. He also threatened no deal for the so-called “dreamers” and he threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA. And a happy Easter to you too!
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
Then it was off to Easter services where he again couldn’t stop talking about immigration.
“Mexico has got to help us at the border … A lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of DACA,” President Trump says before going into church on Easter morning. pic.twitter.com/WimSVUylrZ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 1, 2018
Fact check: To be eligible for DACA, you have to have been living in the U.S. since 2007. No one arriving now would be covered by any deals currently in Congress.
This makes no sense. To be eligible for DACA, people had to have been living in the US since 2007. Nobody who arrives now would be covered by the program even if it wasn’t being terminated. Nor would they be covered by any of the citizenship deals on the table in Congress. https://t.co/ftiZXYg04D
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 1, 2018
So Donald Trump is lying or doesn’t know what he’s talking about or both. So what is the “catch & release” program? We recently visited the border in south Texas where we found many families and children traveling alone who had just arrived in America with the hope of gaining asylum from countries where gang violence is rampant.
