{"id":324727,"date":"2017-09-05T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jeff-sessions-announces-trumps-official-rescinding-of-daca\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:00:34","slug":"jeff-sessions-announces-trumps-official-rescinding-of-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jeff-sessions-announces-trumps-official-rescinding-of-daca\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sessions announces Trump&#039;s official rescinding of DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has cancelled a program designed to protect from deportation immigrants who were brought to the country as children\u00a0amid a huge outcry against the move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allowed almost 800,000 young men and women, often called &#8220;dreamers&#8221;, who had entered the country as illegal immigrants, to stay in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday that the DACA program had ended.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s administration said the move was necessary to show respect for the country&#8217;s immigration laws, and said nobody covered by the program would be affected before March 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not favor punishing children \u2026 for the actions of their parents. But \u2026 we are a nation of laws,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump ordered a phased-out dismantling of DACA that gives a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the fate of these immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and civil rights activists have blasted Trump\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/05\/534151\/US-DACA-Trump-Sessions-Mexico\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has cancelled a program designed to protect from deportation immigrants who were brought to the country as children\u00a0amid a huge outcry against the move. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allowed almost 800,000 young men and women, often called &#8220;dreamers&#8221;, who had entered the country as illegal immigrants, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}