Declares "NO MORE DACA DEAL" in Easter tweet tirade with false caravan and DACA claims
On Easter Sunday, before attending church services in Palm Beach, Trump posted a series of tweets declaring "NO MORE DACA DEAL!", claiming migrant "caravans" were coming to exploit DACA, and threatening to kill NAFTA as Mexico's "cash cow" unless Mexico stopped border crossings. The tirade continued the next morning with the claim that "These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA." Fact-checkers found the central claim false: DACA eligibility required continuous U.S. presence since June 2007, so no one crossing the border in 2018 could qualify, and the roughly 1,150-person caravan was an annual asylum-seeker demonstration then in southern Mexico, with many participants intending to stay in Mexico. Trump himself had ended DACA in September 2017 and rejected bipartisan deals to restore it.
"These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!" Quote verified against source