In September of 2017, President Trump rescinded DACA, the program that protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from being deported. Then he put the ball in Congress’s court and gave them a March 5 deadline to pass some kind of permanent legislative solution for DACA recipients.
They didn’t. Even though a 2017 poll shows that 78 percent of all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, believe that these young people — the so-called DREAMers — should be allowed to stay permanently in the U.S., Congress did nothing to protect them.
The pull of party politics was once again just too tempting.