WASHINGTON — For just over a decade, more than 800,000 young immigrants brought into the country as children have been safe from deportation thanks to an executive order known as DACA.
Former President Barack Obama justified the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as a “temporary stopgap measure,” needed because of years of inaction by Congress — despite overwhelming public support for Dreamers, who’ve grown up as Americans.
Prospects in Congress remain dim — and the record-breaking surge at the U.S.-Mexico border only makes it harder to envision a breakthrough.
