It gave hope to the Dreamers, named after the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) that proposed a pathway to citizenship for younger immigrants. The DREAM Act was the unsuccessful legal proposal that preceded DACA, a stopgap policy. Trump has shifted the decision-making, and potentially the blame for killing DACA, to the legislative branch: "Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA!" Dysfunction in the Republican-dominated Congress, as shown through failure to repeal the health-care law, potentially spells trouble for a resuscitated DREAM Act. Far fewer Democrats are in Congress today than in 2010, when the DREAM Act collapsed in the Senate by five votes.

Source: CBC News September 06, 2017 09:00 UTC