--- title: Read Jeff Sessions' Letter Advising the End of DACA description: Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Trump Administration has decided to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival canonical: https://time.com/4927250/jeff-sessions-daca-rescind-letter/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-05T15:43:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:17:06.428Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Jeff Sessions' Letter Calling for the End of DACA og:description: The Trump Administration has decided to rescind DACA og:url: https://time.com/4927250/jeff-sessions-daca-rescind-letter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd93ba0e24384a5a/6988dc5ecf40a817b9c493c4/jeff-sessions-daca.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Holds A Briefing On DACA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Jeff Sessions' Letter Calling for the End of DACA twitter:description: The Trump Administration has decided to rescind DACA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd93ba0e24384a5a/6988dc5ecf40a817b9c493c4/jeff-sessions-daca.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Jeff Sessions' Letter Calling for the End of DACA by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 5, 2017 3:43 PM UTC  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks on immigration at the Justice Department September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks on immigration at the Justice Department September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 5, 2017 3:43 PM UTC Attorney General [Jeff Sessions](http://time.com/4927060/jeff-sessions-daca-announcement/) said the Trump Administration has decided to [rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals](http://time.com/4927227/daca-undocumented-dreamers-jeff-sessions/), or DACA, a program enacted by former President Barack Obama that has prevented nearly 800,000 immigrants from deportation since 2012. The Trump Administration decided to phase out the program following the threat of legal action by Republican attorneys general from nine states against DACA. Congress now has six months to develop a policy that decides the fate of Dreamers, or those who have benefitted from the program. In a letter to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke on Monday, Sessions wrote that the program “was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch” that would not withstand a court challenge. “In light of the costs and burdens that will be imposed on DHS associated with rescinding this policy, DHS should consider an orderly and efficient wind-down process,” Sessions wrote. “Proper enforcement of our immigration laws is, as President Trump consistently said, critical to the national interest and to the restoration of the rule of law in our country.” Read his full letter below. > [](https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/905085735346335745) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4927250/jeff-sessions-daca-rescind-letter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4927250/jeff-sessions-daca-rescind-letter/"},"headline":"Read Jeff Sessions' Letter Calling for the End of DACA","datePublished":"2017-09-05T15:43:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:17:06.428Z","description":"The Trump Administration has decided to rescind DACA","url":"https://time.com/4927250/jeff-sessions-daca-rescind-letter/","keywords":["Immigration","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd93ba0e24384a5a/6988dc5ecf40a817b9c493c4/jeff-sessions-daca.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd93ba0e24384a5a/6988dc5ecf40a817b9c493c4/jeff-sessions-daca.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions Holds A Briefing On DACA","caption":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions Holds A Briefing On DACA","creditText":"Alex Wong—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/immigration/","name":"Immigration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4927250/jeff-sessions-daca-rescind-letter/","name":"Read Jeff Sessions' Letter Calling for the End of DACA"}}]}] ```