MOSTLY FALSE: Sessions says Obamas policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the so

[riversedge]

Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."

— Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 in remarks at the Justice Department
Jeff Sessions' questionable claim that DACA helped cause spike in minors at border

By Louis Jacobson on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 at 6:04 p.m.

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Sessions said that DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."

Since the DACA policy itself didn’t address the situation of unaccompanied Central American minors at all, the only way it could have had any effect was through mistaken understandings among potential migrants in Central America about what the program did and didn’t do. While there is evidence that such mistaken ideas did exist, the data shows that the upticks at the southern border were already under way by the time DACA was announced, and that the trend line didn’t change significantly after the announcement. So the effect, if there was any at all, would have been too small to measure.

We rate the claim Mostly False.

[Ms. Toad]

1. Pretty much what I said,

the day he made the assinine claim.

[dhill926]

2. the nation's leading law enforcement official....

is a racist, misogynistic liar. christ....

[benld74]

3. Maddox 0905 exposed the evil elf

For all
He quoted a 1924 immigration bill signed into law but written by a government paid eugenicist hired by a Washington state racist.

The man is a snake

[Nevernose]

4. I urge anyone who wants to repeal DACA

Lurkers or trolls or whoever:

Please, find a teenage Salvadoran girl and ask her about her home country, what day to day life was like. Vice documentaries and YouTube videos can't do their stories justice.

You will change your mind and you will probably be in tears.