More than 600,000 “Dreamers” were breathing a little easier on Wednesday when the Biden administration finalized a rule to turn the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program into federal regulation. It’s a move intended to protect the immigration policy that Republicans have been challenging for a decade.
We recognize the long-awaited good this effort does to secure and strengthen the policy that allows undocumented individuals who were brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the country legally. But let’s not forget the 2012 DACA program was meant to be a temporary fix to shield these young adults from deportation.
