Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

Article author: 
Eliana Johnson
Article publisher: 
Politico
Article date: 
4 September 2017
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises...
 
Trump has wrestled for months with whether to do away with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. But conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that Congress — rather than the executive branch — is responsible for writing immigration law, helped persuade the president to terminate the program and kick the issue to Congress, the two sources said...
 

 

 
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As Breitbart News reported, Trump is expected to end the Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program where more than 720,000 young illegal aliens have been able to fill U.S. jobs by obtaining a work permit...