Your Arkansas headlines for September 5, 2017: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this morning that DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from the threat of deportation, is being phased out. Also, Cotton’s take on DACA, the story of Dick Gregory’s arrest in Pine Bluff for eating at a segregated restaurant as well as news of lower-than-expected state tax revenues.

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