Sessions, Not Trump, Will Make DACA Announcement Tuesday Morning

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at PortMiami in Miami. As The White House wages a fight with cities and states over how far they can cooperate with federal immigration authorities, Sessions visited Miami to hail it as an example of a place that reversed its sanctuary policies to follow President Donald Trump’s orders. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at PortMiami in Miami. As The White House wages a fight with cities and states over how far they can cooperate with feder... U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at PortMiami in Miami. As The White House wages a fight with cities and states over how far they can cooperate with federal immigration authorities, Sessions visited Miami to hail it as an example of a place that reversed its sanctuary policies to follow President Donald Trump's orders. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) MORE LESS
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday at 11 a.m. where he will reportedly announce the administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, with a six months delay.

Sessions will not take any questions from reporters following the briefing, according to the Department of Justice’s schedule.

Politico was first to report that President Donald Trump was planning to announce Tuesday that he will end DACA, a move that has seen bipartisan pushback. Sessions will face the cameras instead.

The DACA program was introduced through executive order by Former President Barack Obama in 2012 and is designed to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.

The six month delay will reportedly give Congress time to pass legislation to remedy the issue. Several states have threatened to sue Trump if he didn’t make moves to end the program by Tuesday.

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  1. Well, of course.

    Trump is a coward, and this is giving little gnome Sessions the biggest woody of his life.

  2. Trump is such a coward. He won’t fire people to their face and he won’t announce this awful decision himself. Let someone else take the blame. That should be on his tombstone

  3. Damn it, I am going to say it out loud:
    Deplorable
    Despicable
    Disgusting
    Disgraceful
    Disingenuous
    Duplicitous
    Dangerous
    Detrimental
    Devious
    Deadly
    and above all
    Duped by
    Donald

  4. Avatar for docd docd says:

    The delayed enactment of the order is another cowardly act. He knows that–well, scratch that, it’s difficult to know how many of actions are deliberate maneuvers and how many are just the striking out of a wounded psyche. My point was that punting it for six months is another piece of his cowardice.

  5. This is not good.

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