Monday is the deadline President Trump gave Congress to put into law the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and protect nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to America as children. There's no fix yet to a problem that Trump himself created six months ago when he ended DACA by executive action.
The Supreme Court last week left in place a federal judge's order temporarily continuing the program, thus denying Trump the chance to immediately carry out one of the cruelest policies of his presidency: deporting the Dreamers, as the DACA participants are known. Yet this is only a partial reprieve. Those who have DACA status can apply to renew the permits that allow them to be in the United States legally, but there's no path for more than 1 million young people who do not already have DACA status and thus have no protection from deportation at all.
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