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DACA decision stirs local reaction

White House rescinding program protecting young immigrants

Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a statement at the Justice Department in Washington, Sept. 5, 2017, on President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Donald Trump's administration will "wind down" a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, Sessions said. - photo by Associated Press

Jeff Sessions — Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a statement at the Justice Department in Washington, Sept. 5, 2017, on President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Donald Trump's administration will "wind down" a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, Sessions said. - photo by Associated Press

A Latina who enrolled in a class to learn English at the Hall County Adult Learning Center of Lanier Technical College in Gainesville railed Tuesday against the Trump Administration decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.