Article snippet: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Trump administration will phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy that was initiated under President Barack Obama in 2012, which protects immigrants who arrived in the United States in their youth from deportation. President Donald Trump characterized the decision as one made to protect the laws of the U.S., and urged Congress to develop a solution in the next six months before the program is ended. "I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents," Trump said in a statement. "But we must also recognize that we are nation of opportunity because we are a nation of laws." The president previously expressed his fondness for the group covered by the policy, saying last week: “We love the Dreamers. We love everybody" -- despite vowing to end the program during his presidential campaign when he labelled it "illegal." Here’s what you need to know about the program: DACA was started by Obama in 2012 to allow certain undocumented immigrants who were children when they were brought to the U.S. to apply for deferred action, and be eligible for work permits. The policy was implemented as an executive action, and could easily be undone with the stroke of the presidential pen. One of the big questions now that Trump has decided to end the program is what will happen to the nearly 800,000 so-called Dreamers who came ... Link to the full article to read more