Late night host Seth Meyers on Tuesday called President Trump a liar after the administration's decision to end a program allowing children who entered the United States illegally to live and work here free from the fear of deportation.

The decision will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which affected about 800,000 young immigrants.

"DACA recipients were brought here as children, have known no other country, pay taxes, have no criminal record and are as American as anyone else living here," Meyers said Tuesday during NBC's "Late Night."

"And this will shock you, with this decision today, Trump once again proved himself to be a liar after repeatedly assuring Dreamers that he would take care of them and treat them with heart."

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Meyers illustrated his point with several clips in which Trump says DACA recipients shouldn't be very worried and emphasizing that he has a big heart.

"We're going to show great heart. DACA is a very very difficult subject for me, I will tell you ... because you have these incredible kids," Trump said in one clip.

"I love these kids, I love kids, I have kids."

Trump had given mixed messages about the program, saying during his campaign he would end it. He ran on a tough anti-immigration platform and parts of his base cheered Tuesday's move, which cuts off applications to join the program and means that people now eligible for its benefits will begin losing them in March.

Trump is now pressing Congress to take action, arguing that when President Obama created DACA, he went beyond his constitutional abilities.

On Tuesday night, Trump tweeted he looks forward to working with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to address immigration reform.

"Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do)," Trump tweeted Tuesday. "If they can't, I will revisit this issue!"

Lawmakers would appear to face long odds, however, given the difficulty of enacting immigration reform.