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It's Official: Sessions Announces End of DACA

5-9-2017 < Red Ice Creations 59 139 words
 
It's Official: Sessions Announces End of DACA Editor's Note: While this is certainly a good development, Congress still has a six-month window to screw everything up. The DACA saga, I'm afraid, is far from over. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the rumored end of Obama’s DACA amnesty program official Tuesday. Addressing reporters at the Department of Justice, Sessions, who made resistance to amnesty a focal point of his decades long political career, took the lead in announcing the fulfillment of one of President Donald Trump’s major campaign promises. A DOJ spokeswoman, however, made clear it was the president who had made the final decision. “I’m here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated by the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions said. Later calling for an “orderly and lawful wind-down.”…
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