Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called off the filibuster after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised to consider legislation by early February to extend President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Trump announced last year that DACA would end in March, setting the stage for deporting an estimated 700,000 people who arrived in the U.S. as minors and have been living here illegally since before June 15, 2007. There is broad public and congressional support for DACA, yet lawmakers have yet to move a bill to solve the dilemma faced by its participants — the vast majority of whom grew up here and have little or no familiarity with any other country.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 22, 2018 21:47 UTC