President Trump said late Tuesday he would “revisit” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program if Congress did not legalize it — just hours after his attorney general “rescinded” the program.
“Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can’t, I will revisit this issue!” Trump tweeted.
Trump AG Jeff Sessions signaled an end to the program, which protects 800,000 illegal immigrants, earlier in the day, saying that then-President Obama’s executive order creating the program was an “unconstitutional exercise of authority.”
The Trump administration gave Congress six months to legalize the program, or else it will begin dismantling it. If lawmakers don’t take action, the program will end by 2020, which could lead to the deportation of about 800,000 people known as “Dreamers” who were brought into the country illegally as children.