When the Obama administration pushed through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions was not pleased.

“With its announcement today, the Obama administration has openly declared to the American people that it is determined to contravene the immigration laws of the United States, circumventing the will of the people and authority of its representatives in Congress. In fact, this policy is far broader than the version of the DREAM Act rejected by Congress on a bipartisan basis and contains almost no enforceable limits and requirements,” the lawmaker from Alabama said in a June 15, 2012, statement.