Trump Abruptly Ends ‘Dreamers’ Program, Upending Countless Lives and Families

‘Donald Trump on Tuesday thrust the fate of nearly 800,000 young, undocumented migrants into uncertainty by terminating the Obama-era program that protects the so-called Dreamers from deportation.
New applications will no longer be accepted, while those currently in the program will all lose their status by March 2020, with the first permits expiring in March 2018 – unless Congress passes legislation allowing them to stay.
Attorney general Jeff Sessions announced the administration’s plans to phase out the 2012 policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) by 5 March 2018, leaving Congress with six months to enact new protections for Dreamers through legislation.
Trump’s move followed months of speculation over whether he would keep intact or tear apart a landmark executive action by Barack Obama that lifted the threat of deportation for migrants brought to the US before they were 16.’
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