--- title: White House to Announce DACA Decision on Tuesday description: President Trump will announce his decision on whether to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, on Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/4925532/president-trump-daca-decision-tuesday/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-01T20:01:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:15:40.210Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House to Announce DACA Decision on Tuesday og:description: The program protects undocumented immigrants called "Dreamers" og:url: https://time.com/4925532/president-trump-daca-decision-tuesday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt642f95ebd617dc5e/6988dc440a4a2256ac9cfbd0/gettyimages-840966232.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TAX og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House to Announce DACA Decision on Tuesday twitter:description: The program protects undocumented immigrants called "Dreamers" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt642f95ebd617dc5e/6988dc440a4a2256ac9cfbd0/gettyimages-840966232.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House to Announce DACA Decision on Tuesday  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 1, 2017 8:01 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a tax reform kickoff event at the Loren Cook Company in Springfield, MO, on August 30, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a tax reform kickoff event at the Loren Cook Company in Springfield, MO, on August 30, 2017.Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 1, 2017 8:01 PM UTC President Trump will announce his decision on whether to terminate [the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA](http://time.com/daca-dream-act-jose-antonio-vargas-time-cover-revisited/?xid=tcoshare), on Tuesday, the White House says. “I just spoke with the President and we’re in the process of finalizing that decision and those details, and we’re actually going to make that announcement on Tuesday of next week,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters during Friday’s briefing. “The President has been very clear he loves people, and he wants to make sure that this decision is done correctly, so that’s what he’s doing now finalizing that part,” she added. DACA, established under President Barack Obama, protects some undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. Since its implementation in 2012, it has shielded about 800,000 immigrants from deportation. Some Republicans feel the program was an overreach of executive power, but House Speaker Paul Ryan argued earlier Friday that Trump [shouldn’t scrap it](http://time.com/4925171/paul-ryan-president-trump-daca/?xid=homepage), and that Congress should take up the issue instead. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4925532/president-trump-daca-decision-tuesday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4925532/president-trump-daca-decision-tuesday/"},"headline":"White House to Announce DACA Decision on Tuesday","datePublished":"2017-09-01T20:01:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:15:40.210Z","description":"The program protects undocumented immigrants called \"Dreamers\"","url":"https://time.com/4925532/president-trump-daca-decision-tuesday/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt642f95ebd617dc5e/6988dc440a4a2256ac9cfbd0/gettyimages-840966232.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt642f95ebd617dc5e/6988dc440a4a2256ac9cfbd0/gettyimages-840966232.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TAX","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TAX","creditText":"Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4925532/president-trump-daca-decision-tuesday/","name":"White House to Announce DACA Decision on Tuesday"}}]}] ```