Trump administration rescinds DACA

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on September 5, 2017, that the Trump administration would rescind the DACA program, directing DHS to wind down the policy over six months. Sessions argued DACA was an unlawful use of executive power that circumvented Congress. Federal courts immediately issued injunctions blocking the rescission, and the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 2020 that the rescission process was unlawful under administrative law.