Why Trump's attempt to blame Democrats for ending DACA is falling flat
By Amber Phillips April 2 at 1:08 PM
President Trump appears to be realizing what the rest of Washington has already come to terms with: A deal to protect “dreamers” from deportation is dead.
Recognizing that hundreds of thousands of sympathetic young immigrants could be deported under his watch, he's on a tear to blame Democrats for a deal's falling through. Trump has declared the deal dead and then blamed Democrats for it at least three times in the past 24 hours. But so far, that argument doesn't seemed to have swayed a measurable number of Americans. A majority of Americans think the 2012 Obama-era program protecting immigrants brought to the country as children from deportation should be continued. And a majority of Americans blame Trump and his party for ending it.
1. The most obvious is that Trump ended DACA.
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2. Trump hasn't proved to be a reliable negotiator on dreamers.
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3. Trump's rhetoric on immigration doesn't match what he's saying now: In his opening campaign speech, Trump literally accused Mexican immigrants of being criminals and rapists. His winning campaign theme was to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep immigrants out. A year into his presidency, he asked, using a profane term, why people from such countries such as Haiti and African nations had to come to the United States under a bipartisan immigration deal lawmakers presented him. It was a comment that ultimately scuttled any deal.
Trump has occasionally said he is sympathetic toward dreamers and wants to protect them from deportation. But that's hard to square for anyone listening to what else he says and does about it, especially when it comes to protecting dreamers.
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