President Donald Trump on Tuesday ended an amnesty that protected from deportation, 800,000 people brought to the United States illegally as minors.
Trump’s attorney general Jeff Sessions said the amnesty put in place by former president Barack Obama was unconstitutional and “denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.”
“I am here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama Administration is being rescinded,” he said.
The Trump administration added 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.
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