DACA Is Ending, Jeff Sessions Confirms in a Disgusting Speech
In a speech filled with anti-immigrant falsehoods, Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed on Tuesday morning that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has shielded nearly one million undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children from deportation, is “being rescinded.”
Sessions pointedly referred to DACA recipients as“illegal aliens” and characterized them as “mostly adult.”“The compassionate thing is to do is end the lawlessness,” Sessions said. Congress will reportedly have six months to amend the program before it officially expires, which, for a Republican-controlled Congress that’s passed zero major pieces of legislation, is an awfully tall order. Moreover, the tenor of Sessions’ speech—which a Breitbart reporter characterized as “full Breitbart”—suggested he was opposed to any subsequent congressional fix.
“We cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. It’s just that simple,” the attorney general also said, blaming President Obama’s executive action to create DACA for a “surge” of minors at the country’s southern border in 2014. “This doesn’t mean they’re bad people.” (Sessions’ argument about a the “surge” is flatly disingenuous at best, as undocumented young people arriving in 2014 arrived seven years too late to be eligible to apply for DACA.)