According to a breaking report from NBC News, the Trump administration is “poised to end” Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program protecting 800,000 undocumented immigrant youth from deportation:
President Donald Trump appears likely to pull the plug on DACA, the Obama-era program allowing young people who came to the U.S. illegally as children to remain here, several government officials said Friday.
Administration officials said the Department of Homeland Security sent a recommendation to the White House earlier this week on what to do, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed the program with senior officials Thursday at the White House. Sessions has been a consistent opponent of the program, formally known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Vanita Gupta, Obama’s former head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said that ending DACA would “be a grave moral and legal error. Killing the DACA program as the Trump administration's first post-Charlottesville move would be absolutely shameful. We must not allow the hate violence that we saw on the streets of Charlottesville to become the guiding force for policy making."
Dozens of immigrant youth are currently protesting in front of White House and are calling on Republican leaders to defend undocumented immigrant youth, DACA, and the 2017 DREAM Act. Visit DefendDACA.com to add your voice in solidarity.