DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [9-5-17] ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling the program an ‘amnesty-first approach’ and urging Congress to replace it with legislation before it begins phasing out on March 5, 2018…
The statement was released shortly after Mr. Trump, who had called the issue a personal dilemma, dispatched his attorney general to announce that the government will no longer accept new applications from undocumented immigrants to shield them from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
Administration officials said the roughly 800,000 current beneficiaries of the program — brought to the United States illegally as children — will not be immediately affected by what they called an ‘orderly wind down’ of former President Barack Obama’s policy…
Earlier on Tuesday, it was Mr. Sessions, an immigration hard-liner who has helped shape Mr. Trump’s views, who publicly announced the move, in essence shifting responsibility for the immigration issue to lawmakers…
The announcement was an effort by Mr. Trump to honor his campaign pledge to end Mr. Obama’s immigration policy, while avoiding an immediate termination of protections and work permits for the so-called “dreamers,” many of whom have lived in the United States since they were small children.”
-Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act,” The New York Times online, Sept. 5, 2017