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In this Feb. 12, 2011 file photo, Ann Coulter waves to the audience after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign, is calling him out for stalling on key immigration promises, including the deportation of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.

Trump campaigned on a hardline stance against immigrants who violated immigration laws, promising to deport them and to "immediately terminate" programs created during the Obama administration. One of those programs, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), gives deportation reprieves to immigrants who came to the United States as children and have no legal authorization to live here, so-called "Dreamers."

As of June 8, DACA was still in effect, and the Trump administration continued to take applications, prompting Coulter to tweet: "HOW TRUMP LOSES THE NEXT ELECTION. Nearly 100,000 Dreamers Granted Amnesty In Trumps Opening Months."

Her tweet linked to an article from conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, headlined "Nearly 100,000 Dreamers Granted Amnesty In Trumps Opening Months" part of the text in Coulters tweet.

We wondered if her tweet was accurate. We found that the numbers are in line with data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but whether the program grants "amnesty" is a matter of debate among experts.

DACA by the numbers

About a month into Trumps administration, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly rescinded all previous enforcement priorities memos. But he kept in place a June 2012 memo that created DACA and a November 2014 memo for a separate deferred action program that would have benefitted immigrants in the country illegally who are parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.

On June 15, the Trump administration revoked the memo that benefitted the parents, but said DACA would remain in place. White House press secretary Sean Spicer on June 19 said DACA is under review but did not provide a timeline for a final determination.

Close to 800,000 immigrants have been approved for DACA, according to USCIS data released June 8. The latest numbers show approvals from 2012 up to March 31, 2017.

From January 2017 to March 2017, immigration officials approved more than 124,000 applications: 107,524 renewal cases plus 17,275 initial cases.

How many have been approved since Trump took office Jan.20?

The Daily Caller, citing USCIS numbers, reported that the Trump administration through DACA had "given amnesty to an estimated 98,000 illegal immigrants."

We reached out to The Daily Callers reporter, Alex Pfeiffer, who told us he reached the estimated 98,000 by dividing the total number of cases approved from January through March by the number of business days in that period, and removing days in January that Trump was not in office.

Pfeiffer said he only used business days in the calculation, because those are the only days that USCIS accepts DACA applications. USCIS told us DACA applications are not accepted online, only by mail, and that the lockbox where requests are sent typically accepts mail from Monday through Friday.

We did our own calculation using Pfeiffers parameters and also got about 98,000.

We asked USCIS for a month-by-month breakdown of approved applications, but did not receive the information by deadline.

Coulter did not respond to our inquiries sent via social media or her booking company.

DACA recipients granted amnesty?

Whether DACA beneficiaries are getting amnesty is a not a settled matter among experts.

Weve noted before that a legal definition of amnesty is "a blanket abolition of an offense by the government, with the legal result that those charged or convicted have the charge or conviction wiped out Amnesty is not a pardon as some believe, since a pardon implies forgiveness, and amnesty indicates a reason to overlook or forget the offenses."

The common reference for amnesty in modern American politics is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, signed by President Ronald Reagan. The law paved the way for immigrants who were in the country illegally to become lawful permanent residents if they met certain requirements, including being in the country by Jan. 1, 1982.

Individuals granted DACA are protected from deportation for two years and are eligible for work permits. Recipients can apply to renew their DACA protection, but are not granted a lawful status.

DACA is a temporary and limited kind of relief that can be revoked by the president, said Kevin R. Johnson, an immigration law expert and dean of the University of California, Davis School of Law.

"DACA does not create a lasting amnesty and lawful permanent residence" as did the 1986 law, Johnson said.

Others see it differently.

Based on the benefits it offers, DACA is amnesty, said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors low-immigration levels.

"I would define an amnesty as such whenever the law is set aside and the normal penalty is waived as a matter of policy," Camarota said. "The normal penalty for being in the U.S. illegally is removal."

Our ruling

In a tweet, Coulter said the Trump administration granted amnesty to "Nearly 100,000 'Dreamers.' "

Trump assumed office Jan.20. Data from USCIS shows more than 124,000 people have been approved for DACA from January to March.

Calculations of the total applications approved January through March that only include days Trump has been inoffice show that, at least, about 98,000 were approved.

Whether the program is amnesty is subject to interpretation. For that reason, we rate Coulters claim Mostly True.

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Required reading lists are the bane of any high-schooler's summer. Now, they're also a new frontier for politicizing teens in favor of right-wing politics.

An alleged list of required summer reading at an Alabama public school surfaced online Wednesday, compelling students to read at least one book from a list of works by conservative pundits like Ann Coulter, Michael Savage and Mark Levin, as well as a book about abortion by Ronald Reagan. The list was allegedly assigned by Gene Ponder, who teaches government, economics and AP-level political science courses at Spanish Fort High School in Alabama.

Among the assigned books are titles like Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions; It's OK to Leave the Plantation; Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America; The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools and Military; and Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.

The list appeared online via journalist Eoin Higgins, who obtained it from out-of-state students who were passing it around.

Of the 31 books listed, only a small handful Lies My Teacher Told Me and The Everything American Government Book, for example were not explicitly written by right-wing media pundits.

Gene Ponder isn't just a public school teacher, but a former candidate for lieutenant governor of Alabama who lost the Republican primary. During his campaign, he cited the power of the federal government to enforce its laws on noncomplying states the very means by which battles like school segregation and marriage equality were won as his reason for running.

Ponder told AL.com that this kind of law enforcement is tantamount to "coercion, intimidation and blackmail."

In an email statement to Mic, Baldwin County Alabama Public Schools communications director Terry Wilhite wrote, "Mr. Ponders reading list thats going around on social media has not been endorsed by the school or the school system."

"The list has been removed by the teacher," he added. "Baldwin County Public Schools has a process to vet and approve reading lists so that a variety of sources are used. I expect all employees to follow our processes, procedures and policies."

June 21, 2017, 7:45 p.m. Eastern: This story has been updated.

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Alabama public school assigns Ann Coulter and other right-wing ... - Mic

On Friday, The Blaze reported conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter posted a series of social media messages on her Twitter account criticizing President Donald Trump for failing to focus on shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border and choosing instead to prioritize issues Coulter feels should be pushed to the back of the line.

Coulters comments followed a speech Trump gave in Miami announcing changes to former President Barack Obamas controversial policies governing U.S. relations with Cuba.

I thought with Trump wed finally have a president helping OUR country, Coulter tweeted. So far: Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy, China, N Kor. Today: Cuba.

At least Cubas in our hemisphere, Coulter wrote. How long can it be before he gets to America?

Right-leaning outlet Mediaite managed to get Coulter to comment on her Twitter tirade against Trump, and she didnt hold back.

It was a whole series today! Coulter told Mediaite. This jacka** is really ticking me off. And today Cuba? F***ing Cuba? If hed run a campaign promising to do everything hes done in the last 6 months, hed never have been elected. [Quote edited for language.]

After the Mediate story was published, Coulter claimed on Twitter she didnt intend for the quote about Trump to be published.

I wouldnt have cursed if Id known [Jonathan] Levine now works at @Mediaite, Coulter wrote. Thought I was emailing a friend. Now you know I REALLY mean what I tweet.

I have half-naked photos of @LevineJonathan. (Very cute!) Youd think I could speak openly in an email to him, Coulter wrote.

In May, Coulter penned a scathing rebuke of Trumps failure to close the border after agreeing to pass a budget that did not include funding for a border wall.

Apparently, Trumps fine with no wall and everything else in a bill straight out of George Soros dream journal if only the Democrats hadnt been so rude as to tell the public about it, Coulter wrote. When your main complaint is that the other side is gloating too much, maybe youre not that great a negotiator.

Yeah, sure, its only 100 days in, its an artificial deadline, the media is dying to say Trump has failed and so on, Coulter wrote.

Except: Planning for the wall should have begun on Nov. 9, and a spade should have been put into the earth to begin building it the day after Trumps inauguration, Coulter added. Now, its 100 days later, and we still dont have the whisper of a prospect of a wall.

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Ann Coulter's fury with Trump growing daily no punches pulled in latest rebuke - TheBlaze.com

Conservative rabble rouser and 2016 Trump supporter Ann Coulter is suddenly turning against the man she supported during the GOP primariesand the presidential elections. Coulter, who told voters for months (if not years) that Trump was the man who would make America great again, is now suggesting that Vice President Mike Pence would make a better president.

The final straw that caused Coulter to go from prolific supporter to critic was the Trump administration's decision not to get rid of Obama's executive amnesty:

Yesterday, the Trump administration kept in place Obamas unconstitutional executive amnesty.

Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2017

She added:

This daily Trump melodrama is worth it ONLY if hes really going to build the wall, cut off Muslim refugees and deport illegals.

Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2017

That tweet about "the wall" apparently set her off even more:

Today's BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: Miles completed yesterday--Zero; Miles completed since Inauguration--Zero. NEXT UPDATE TOMORROW.

Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2017

Anyone in a Southwestern state who strolls to the border & drops a brick will have done more to build the wall than @realDonaldTrump.

Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2017

Next, Coulter added that Pence could soon replace Trump as president if he embraced the building of Ann's precious wall:

If @VP Pence were smart, starting making noises about how he'd LOVE to build a wall. He'd be sworn in as president about 2 weeks.

Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2017

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Ann Coulter Turns Against Trump Over Border Wall: 'I Thought He'd Help OUR Country' - PJ Media

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WASHINGTON Campuses increasingly are becoming no-go zones for white men and their ideas, apparently just for being white, according to conservative pundit Ann Coulter.

After white students and faculty at Evergreen State College were coerced to leave for a Day of Absence, the campus descended into chaos students cornering faculty, demanding they be fired,and bat-wielding gangs of students patrolling the campus.

A similar situation emerged previously at the University of Californiaat Berkeley when radical left-wingers violently shut down an event by Milo Yiannopoulos. Trump supporters were pepper sprayed and beaten, and the riot caused $100,000 in property damaged.

Coulter was similarly scheduled to speak at Berkeley, but the event was canceled out of concern for public safety. When asked by WND if the events at Berkeley and Evergreen signal that white men and their ideas are unsafe on campus, Coulter responded with a resounding Yes!

[So] are innocent students, children or the elderly, she said.

Coulter does not think the problem will necessarily spread to the United States as a whole, but if it did, I would assume it would start with college administrators.

Political correctness is just the beginning. The situation on college campuses is worse than you could ever imagine and Americas future is at stake. Dont miss the political blockbuster of 2017 No Campus For White Men by Scott Greer.

Recent developments at Evergreen State College have intensified, leading biology professor Bret Weinstein to relocate his family off campus. Weinstein, a self-described progressive, was initially targeted by the campus mob as he objected to the Day of Absence.

Weinstein went on the Tucker Carlson Tonight show on Monday to discuss the hate and violence he has faced for challenging campus orthodoxy. Carlson began the show asking why Weinstein decided to relocate off campus.

The college has never acknowledged the danger that they put us in, and therefore I have no way of knowing whether its safe for me to return, Weinstein said. [The administrations] assurances that it is safe dont mean anything. Not that theyve offered them.

Carlson then asked Weinstein why he opposed the Day of Absence in the first place.

There is a tremendous difference between a population absenting themselves from a shared space, and a population deciding to absent other people from that same space, Weinstein responded.

Weinstein told Carlsonthat while he still wishes to remain at Evergreen State College, he doesnt think its possible. The hostile administration and the violence of the student mob has assured him that he is not welcome there.

Scott Greer, an editor for the Daily Caller and author of the prescient book No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination, appeared on the Hagmann & Hagmann Report on Monday to discuss the increasing encroachment of the race-baiting authoritarians on campus and at Evergreen in particular.

When I first heard about this story, I thought they took my book title as a challenge, Greer commented.

Asat Berkeley, campus police at Evergreenstood down and refused to protect Weinstein and his colleagues.

As is the case with these matters, if youre showing weakness, these people are just going to take more and more and keep you under lock and key, Greer argued.

When asked what leads to these protests, Greer stated its a dumbed-down radical agenda pushed on students by far-left professors.

Its not even intellectual enough to be Marxism theyre just taught these poorly thought out ideas that all white people are racist no matter who they are, he said.

Students are filled with passed-down resentment toward traditional America, toward white people, toward Western civilization, Greer believes. They think this is all bad and needs to go away.

Political correctness is just the beginning. The situation on college campuses is worse than you could ever imagine and Americas future is at stake. Dont miss the political blockbuster of 2017 No Campus For White Men by Scott Greer.

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Coulter: Campuses becoming unsafe for white men - WND.com