White House Reaches Decision On DACA: Report

President Donald Trump has reportedly reached a decision on whether to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the program that extends protections to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children. According to a Politico report, Trump plans to end the Obama-era program, and the White House plans to delay enforcing the action by six months.

According to Politico, in the deliberations leading up to the decision, Attorney General Jeff Sessions argued to Trump that it was Congress and not the executive branch that is responsible for immigration law, helping to persuade the president to end the program.

On Monday, the Department of Justice announced that Sessions would deliver the announcement about the administration's decision on DACA. Watch the event live Tuesday morning.

As the White House weighed whether or not to end the program, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed that the White House should not terminate DACA, a key Trump campaign promise.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, speaking to a radio station in Wisconsin, said on Friday that he doesn't think Trump should end the program.

"I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix," Ryan said.

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch also urged Trump not to end the program. Hatch said that while he, like the president, agrees on tougher advocation of current immigration laws, there also needs to be a solution for children who were brought to the country illegally through no fault of their own.

To show support for the program, thousands gathered at rallies across the country voicing support for DACA recipients or DREAMers.

At one such rally in Austin, Texas, where residents were also celebrating the blocking of a controversial immigration law by a federal judge, there was both a sense of relief and anxiety.

"We're glad that right now our communities can live and breathe free for a little bit, but DACA is potentially going to be repealed this weekend," Cristina Tzintzún, executive director of Jolt, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, told Patch. "So the fight is not over."

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