The Morning Briefing: No More DACA?, No Background Checks for Awan Family and Much, Much More

Good Monday morning.

Here is what’s on the President’s agenda today:

The President and First Lady host the White House Easter Egg Roll
The President meets with National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow

Bye-bye DACA?

On Sunday, President Trump tweeted out “NO MORE DACA” after venting his frustration with the situation at the border.

Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018

Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018

As he was heading into Easter services, he spoke to the media and said:

“Mexico has got to help us at the border. If they’re not going to help us at the border, it’s a very sad thing between two countries. Mexico has got to help us at the border. And a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of DACA and we’re going to have to really see,” he said. “They had a great chance. The Democrats blew it. They had a great, great chance. But we’ll have to take a look. But Mexico has got to help us at the border. They flow right through Mexico. They send them into the United States. Can’t happen that way anymore.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he doesn’t want to change the rules, so it’s unlikely Trump will get his way.

44 Dems waived background checks for Pakistani Awan family

Luke Rosiak at The Daily Caller dropped an Easter bombshell yesterday.

Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents.

All of them appear to have waived background checks on Imran Awan and his family members, even though the family of server administrators could collectively read all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats, and despite background checks being recommended for such positions, according to an inspector general’s report. The House security policy requires offices to fill out a form attesting that they’ve initiated background checks, but it also includes a loophole allowing them to simply say that another member vouched for them.

There were quite a few red flags in their backgrounds. Why were the checks waived? The Inspector General’s report in 2016 revealed the Awan family was:

logging into servers of members they didn’t work for, logging in using congressmen’s personal usernames, uploading data off the House network, and behaving in ways that suggested “nefarious purposes” and that “steps are being taken to conceal their activity.”

Read the whole thing.

Picture of the day:

Ragi Gates, 5, interacts with the Easter Bunny during the Easter Annual Parade along South Street, Sunday, April 1, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Other morsels:

New York Magazine cover depicts Trump as a pig

Google snubbed Easter with no doodle for 18th year in a row, Christians say

NBC’s Chuck Todd slammed on Twitter for Good Friday comments

The Chinese space station hurtling towards Earth has crashed over the South Pacific

Tens of thousands of teachers planning massive rallies and classroom walkouts

Rising tension at protests over killing of black man in California

Democrat: A gun ban is not ‘feasible right now’

Frank Stallone apologizes after tweet tearing into Parkland student

Orange County board member: We joined lawsuit against California because the state isn’t right

Bernie Sanders sides with Trump on Amazon getting too big

Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor stores suffer data breach