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Long a ‘Dreamer’ critic, Sessions announces program’s demise

senator to endorse Trump. in which Trump publicly be- migration restrictions. He re-
In taking to the podium rated him in interviews and lentlessly opposed compre-
himself, Sessions provided on social media, incensed hensive immigration reform
another reminder of his loy- over his decision to recuse in 2013, and fought against
alty to Trump’s core agen- himself from a probe into a 2010 bill that would have
da and to the president Russia’s meddling into the offered a path to citizen-
himself. It was a sign that election.As a senator, Ses- ship to some young people
tensions between the two sions was a leading force living in the United States
are easing after a summer against efforts to ease im- illegally.q

Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a statement at the Jus-
tice Department in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, on Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,
or DACA program. President Donald Trump’s administration will
“wind down” a program protecting hundreds of thousands of
young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally
as children, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Tuesday.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

By SADIE GURMAN this type of overreach,”
Associated Press Sessions said, reading from
WASHINGTON (AP) — When prepared remarks during a
President Donald Trump briefing at the Justice De-
scrapped a program ben- partment where he refused
efiting young people who to take reporters’ questions.
entered the U.S. illegally Trump made a campaign
as children, he left the an- promise to end protections
nouncement to the mem- for the young immigrants
ber of his Cabinet who had protected by the Deferred
railed against it the longest Action for Childhood Ar-
and loudest. rivals, or DACA, program.
It was Attorney General But as president, he has ex-
Jeff Sessions, rather than pressed sympathy for the
Trump, who stood behind participants, sometimes
a podium Tuesday and called “Dreamers,” and
told a bank of television struggled with the deci-
cameras that the program sion. Trump notably chose
that shielded more than not to be the face of Tues-
800,000 young immigrants day’s announcement. But
from deportation was “an Sessions, an immigration
unconstitutional exercise hardliner who had been
of authority” that must be urging the president to
revoked. fulfill his campaign prom-
“Simply put, if we are to ise, seemed willing.Dur-
further our goal of strength- ing last year’s presidential
ening the constitutional or- campaign, the two men
der and the rule of law in bonded over their hawkish
America, the Department views on immigration, and
of Justice cannot defend Sessions became the first