'We are Americans': Activists protest Trump's decision to end DACA

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program represents an “executive amnesty" that deliberately circumvented the legislative process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday.

The program will wind down over the following six months, giving Congress an opportunity to pass a law regulating the status of some 800,000 people affected.

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Activists angry over the decision rallied outside the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday morning. 

#DREAMers came as children. They grew up in the U.S. This is home. #DefendDACA pic.twitter.com/syre5VQJx5

— Fair Imm Ref4m Mvmnt (@Re4mImmigration) September 5, 2017

First speaker denounces Trump, talks about the impacts of potential #DACA repeal #DC pic.twitter.com/43Oua5KLck

— Karla (@KarlaAnnCote) September 5, 2017

A number of protesters also rallied outside Trump Tower in New York City, chanting “We are here, we’re not going away” in Spanish and “Undocumented here to stay! Deport us? No Way!"

Others chanted: "Undocumented, Unafraid," and “Stand up! Fight back!”

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