A Decade Later: How DACA Eroded the Rule of Law in America

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : DACA represented the first major step in a long-term strategy to erase America's borders and end our nation's sovereignty.
54% : It's unsurprising that the anti-borders movement chose DACA as their first frontier, given the sympathetic nature of some of the program's beneficiaries.
52% : That all changed with DACA, and led to the creation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) just two years later.
50% : DAPA extended the legal protections and benefits in DACA to certain parents of illegal aliens.
47% : While sanctuary cities existed long before 2014, a map of sanctuary counties shows that the number of sanctuaries spiked in 2014, and continued to increase during the Trump Administration as liberal jurisdictions ferociously pushed back against the administration's enforcement policies.
44% : All of this would have been unthinkable ten years ago, and all of it became possible because of the slippery slope of lawlessness the country has been riding since the creation of DACA.
39% : A decade later, the damage DACA has done to the country and the rule of law is clear.
37% : Lawlessness only begets more lawlessness, and there is no greater example of that reality than DACA.
36% : The creation of DACA further polarized the immigration debate in the U.S., and started an anti-borders project that threatens to bring the U.S. to its knees.
36% : DAPA and DACA served as a one-two punch against the rule of law, rewarding millions of illegal aliens with amnesty without an act of Congress.
22% : Just nine months before creating DACA, Obama acknowledged that he didn't have the power to do so.
19% : By enacting DACA, despite admitting he lacked the authority to do so, Obama crossed a line, and set the stage for the Biden Administration's lawlessness.

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