The termination of DACA ignited the public’s opposition to the administration. According to Talkwalker, a social data intelligence company, after one hour of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement (12 noon to 1 p.m. EDT), more than 487,000 social media posts mentioned DACA; in the period between midnight and 1:30 p.m., more than 1.3 million posts mentioned DACA.^[25]

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A tweet from a social media user negatively reacting to Trump’s rescinding of DACA

^[27]Google Trend graph representing the search interest of the term “DACA” for the United States 

A tweet from Bernie Sanders in response to Trump’s decision to rescind DACA

Social media platforms become one of the largest stages for opponents to express their anger. A tweet by Bernie Sanders about the termination of DACA went viral, receiving 82K retweets and 133K likes.. Bernie Sanders calls it the “ugliest and most cruel decision ever made by a president of the US in the modern history of this country.^[29]”