After 16 Futile Years, Congress Will Try Again to Legalize ‘Dreamers’

President Trump gave Congress six months to pass legislation protecting young, undocumented immigrants that lawmakers have not been able to pass for 16 years.

Trump Chooses Sessions, Longtime Foe of DACA, to Announce Its Demise

The president has expressed conflicting emotions about those who were brought to the country as children, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed no such qualms.

The End of DACA: What We Know and Don’t Know

September 5, 2017 The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would begin phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program on March 5, 2018. The program, introduced by President Barack Obama through executive action five years ago,...

On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path

Delaying a decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would buy the president some breathing room but displease nearly everyone else.