Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allowed children of illegal immigrants who have come to the United States to stay in the country to work and go to school, without the threat of deportation. This was implemented by President Obama in 2012 by way of executive order due to gridlock in Congress halting his agenda. This program covers about 800,000 people, known as “Dreamers.” Trump did not end the program abruptly, but gave Congress six months to create immigration policy, and any immigrant whose visa expires within those six months will be renewed. Instantly, when Trump announced this decision, the left denounced this decision by Trump as “wrong, self-defeating, and cruel,” by former president Obama, with Facebook executive Mark Zuckerberg writing on his personal page, “This is a sad day for our country.” This was coupled by celebrities, protestors, politicians, calling out the president for the decision he made. CNN immediately came out with a emotional propaganda video devoid of facts depicting the “Dreamers” crying in front of a camera about how they are going to be deported to Mexico.

But what was the action actually taken by the administration on this issue? Let me give a little background. In 2012, when Obama signed the executive order, he said in a speech to the Department of Homeland Security saying, “This is a temporary stop-gap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief.” Five years and nearly 1 million illegal immigrants later, Trump is ending a program Obama called temporary. Additionally, in article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress of the United States is given jurisdiction over “uniform rule of Naturalization.” This means that Congress, not the President, has the ability to enact lasting immigration reform policy. President Trump made the right decision, to obey the laws and directions of the Constitution, as well as seek out a permanent solution from Congress instead of just kicking the metaphorical can down the road. The liberal elites and mass media are worried that Congress may take Trump’s directive, introduce a bipartisan plan to fix the immigration problem that doesn’t allow them to exploit the emotions and fears of legal immigrants for democratic votes.

However, over the past two weeks, the story has differed slightly. Instead of taking a hardline stance, and demanding funding for a strong border wall and increased security, Trump has taken a softer approach to the solution in Congress, and even made a statement that the “wall can wait.” This flip-flop embodies the establishment Republicans that over the past two decades have caved to leftists on a very important issue, one that Trump ran on and should be sticking with. While I support giving the issue to Congress, Trump should utilize his Republican majority and achieve phasing out for DACA, and most importantly, funding for the wall. Trump won my support due to his immigration stance, and he cannot waver on that issue now.