Agencies – The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a controversial Obama-era policy that shields from deportation nearly 800,000 young immigrants living in the country illegally after being brought to the US as minors. The governor of New York threatened to sue Trump if he took the step . Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a press conference that the Trump administration would begin an orderly and lawful wind-down of the program, originally implemented by President Barack Obama in 2012. The Trump administration has given Congress until March 5 to pass legislation to replace DACA. According to administration officials, the government will no longer accept new applications from undocumented immigrants to protect them from deportation under the programme. But the nearly 800,000 current DACA recipients will not be immediately affected by what Mr Trump referred to as “an orderly transition and wind-down” of Mr Obama’s policy. However to reach a compromise in the Congress over a subject that Washington has been divided over for years will not be easy.
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