Donald Trump scraps DACA program for 800,000 young immigrants

US President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an amnesty-first approach and urged Congress to pass a replacement in six months.

In the month of March, the officials said that around 800,000 young adults including an estimated 6,000 Indians were brought to the United States illegally as children who qualify for the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, will become eligible for deportation.

According to the DACA, those who are currently enrolled will be able to continue working until their permits expire, while those whose permits expire by March 5, 2018, will be permitted to apply for two-year renewal as long as they do so by October 5.

Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the change at the Justice Department, both used the aggrieved language of anti-immigrant activists, arguing that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages.

Meanwhile, former US president Barack Obama decried his successor's decision to end an amnesty for 800,000 people brought to America illegally as children, describing it as "wrong," "self-defeating" and "cruel."

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