DACA Program Being Rescinded, Is ’Unconstitutional,’ Jeff Sessions Says Steve Holland - Reuters
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DACA program is being rescinded: Attorney General Sessions (Fox Business)

Update: The Fate of "Dreamers" Resonates in Mexico, Home to Majority in DACA Program (The Los Angeles Times)

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the United States illegally as children, giving a gridlocked Congress six months to decide their fate.

Trump’s action, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, rescinds a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The program, created by Democratic former President Barack Obama, is supported by Democrats and many business leaders. The Trump administration said no current beneficiaries of the program would be affected before March 5.

Sessions said the action does not mean the DACA recipients are “bad people.”

“To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. It’s just that simple. That would be an open-border policy and the American people have rightly rejected that,” Sessions said.

The move marked the latest action by Trump that is sure to alienate Hispanic Americans, a growing segment of the U.S. population and an increasingly important voting bloc. Most of the immigrants protected by DACA, dubbed “Dreamers,” came from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

Read the rest at GlobalNews

Related: 'This Is Where I Belong': Meet the Dreamers Facing a Nightmare as Trump Scraps DACA (Independent)

Related: Why Ending DACA Is so Unprecedented (Vox)

Related: What We Know About the Nearly 800,000 Undocumented Immigrants Protected By DACA (ABC News)

Related: Canada Could See a Flood of ‘Dreamers’ if U.S. Cuts DACA (CKNW)

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