After U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday morning that the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) would be phased out, immigrants rights groups, state leaders and legislators got to work on possible ways to thwart the decision attributed to President Trump.

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank quickly embraced a tool that's been used before: stripping funds from federal law enforcement. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Orange County did this successfully by blocking taxpayer cash for U.S. Department of Justice crackdowns on cannabis in states where medical pot is legal. Schiff said today that he planned to introduce legislation that would, according to a statement from his office, "prohibit any funds to be used for the deportation of individuals granted deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program."

The proposal would be attached to spending authorization for the federal government under the Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. "For many Dreamers, America is the only home they’ve ever known, and deporting these young people would be cruel and wrong," Schiff said in a statement.