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VERIFY: Here's why 'big flows of people' are not immigrating to take advantage of DACA

Are 'big flows of people' trying to 'take advantage of DACA' like President Trump tweets?
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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Make America Great Again Rally on March 10, 2018 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

QUESTION:

Are 'big flows of people' trying to 'take advantage of DACA' like President Trump tweets?

ANSWER:

Nope, DACA candidates fall under rigid qualifications AND Trump stopped all new DACA applications in September 2017.

SOURCES:

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

PROCESS:

On April Fools day and Easter Weekend, President Trump took time to bash DACA, calling it "dead."

In a tweet, he claimed people were crossing the border to take advantage of DACA, President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Our Verify fact-checkers dug into the fine print at hte U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. They are no longer accepting DACA applications, that stopped in September after Trump cut the cord.

Even so, DACA has specific qualifications for candidates. You would not have been able to immigrate illegally and sign up.

To apply you must have lived consecutively in the United States since June 2007. You also had to be enrolled in high school and be younger than 16 when you came to the U.S.

This tweet saying flows of people are coming across the border right now trying to take advantage of DACA--is not true.

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