Trump Claims Dems Are To Blame For ‘Totally’ Abandoning DACA Recipients

US President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Israel's Prime Minister on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland, on January 25, 2018. / AFP PHO... US President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Israel's Prime Minister on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland, on January 25, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Democrats are to blame for “how BADLY DACA recipients have been treated” by Congress after the Senate failed to vote on a bill to protect the undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S as children.

Trump’s tweet was in line with a statement the White House released on Thursday blaming “Schumer Democrats” who “are not serious about immigration reform” for the failure of the immigration legislation Trump favored.

Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September and left Congress to find a solution for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who previously had legal protection under the program. Over the past week, the Senate has scrambled to negotiate a bipartisan deal on immigration while the Trump administration repeatedly undermined lawmakers’ efforts to reach a compromise.

The Senate on Thursday rejected all four immigration proposals in discussion and failed to restore or otherwise address DACA protections, which are set to expire on March 5.

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  1. Trump …

    … cannot believe how BADLY DACA recipients have been treated by the Democrats …

    … and will immediately issue an executive order to protect them.

  2. Better headline:

    Man Who Unilaterally Killed DACA Blames Dems for Killing DACA: Begs ‘Stop Me Before I Deport Again!’

  3. Welcome to the upside-down, inside-out, inverted world of Donnie Dementia…

  4. Well he does have a lot of folks united against him, does that count?

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