daily signal
Hans von Spakovsky and Christopher Baldacci 7/2/18
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/02/new-report-shows-government-gave-daca-protection-to-thousands-of-criminals/amp/?__twitter_impression=trueHistorian Jacob Burckhardt once warned against being deceived by “terrible simplifiers.†If he hadn’t died in 1897, you might be tempted to think he was writing about defenders of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The left consistently characterizes all DACA recipients as though they were innocent, law-abiding Phi Beta Kappa college graduates. They also treat anyone questioning DACA as a child-hater. That is just one of the myths surrounding the program.
When President Donald Trump last tried to rescind DACA, a program that Obama implemented without legal authority or the approval of Congress, liberals decried the move as an attack on peace-loving immigrants. However, new research challenges that simplistic narrative.
