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One idea that has consistently been floated during debates over President Donald Trump's proposed border wall is for Congress to approve funding for the project in exchange for a permanent deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy. That proposal hasn't sat well with some of Trump's supporters, however, who believe that the wall should be built without any deal on DACA. In January 2019, as a government shutdown over a funding dispute for President Trump's border wall stretched into its second week, an image graphic supposedly showing an 19-year-old DACA beneficiary named Hermilo Moralez and the young man he killed, 18-year-old Joshua Wilkerson, was spread again on social media. When this image was posted to The_Donald, a section of Reddit dedicated to President Trump's fans, it was shared with the caption: Fuck DACA! Finish the damned WALL! This meme is partly accurate in that Joshua Wilkerson was murdered by his classmate Hermilo Moralez in Pearland, Texas, in November 2010: However, although Moralez was not in the U.S. legally, neither was he a beneficiary of the DACA policy. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy allows individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children and who meet certain requirements to delay deportation by two years and to be eligible for work permits. This policy was initially announced in June 2012, nearly two years after Joshua Wilkerson's murder: Hermilo Moralez could not have been a DACA beneficiary because that policy did not exist at the time of his arrest. And Moralez, who was sentenced to life in prison, would not have been eligible for DACA status after that policy was implemented, as it is not open to illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a felony or serious misdemeanors.
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