WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, but with a six-month delay, people familiar with the plans said. During his campaign, Trump slammed DACA as illegal “amnesty” and vowed to eliminate the program the day he took office. The Obama administration created the DACA program in 2012 as a stopgap to protect some young immigrants from deportation as they pushed unsuccessfully for a broader immigration overhaul in Congress. It mimicked versions of the so-called DREAM Act, which would have provided legal status for young immigrants but was never passed by Congress. As of July 31, 2015, more than 790,000 young immigrants had been approved under the program, according to U.S.

Source: National Post September 04, 2017 02:38 UTC