Well, today in "what y'all's President has done lately," it has been reported and confirmed by a Senior White House Official that Donald Trump will end a program that grants legal work status to undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children. 

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)  was implemented during President Obama's era. According to Politico, Trump has wrestled for months on whether to do away with it. After a push from the great Attorney General Jeff Sessions — Sessions argued that Congress, rather than the executive branch,  is responsible for writing immigration law. Trump has now been persuaded to terminate the program and kick the issue to Congress.

There is a six-month delay before the repeal is to be enforced. The window is reportedly left open in the hopes that Congress will take action to carve out exceptions for the roughly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who entered the country as minors.

This will obviously sit well with all of Trump's supporters seeing as they were all about him building the wall between the U.S. and Mexico as well as increased immigration restraint. This does, however, represent another challenge for Ryan and fellow congressional Republicans, who are facing an end-of-September deadline to avert a government shutdown and government debt default, while also tackling a Hurricane Harvey relief package and a major tax reform push. It’s not clear that Congress will be able to come to an agreement on the future of DACA.

And while White House aides caution that nothing is set in stone until an official announcement has been made, Trump is expected to officially announce his decision on Tuesday. What will this mean for all the children who were brought to this country illegally by their parents? I knew Trump lacked empathy, but my goodness.