Post-DACA: How Congress can replace Obama's program and make it even better
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Wayne Cornelius, University of California, San Diego
(THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump has asked Congress to do what former President Barack Obama and his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program could not: Provide permanent protection from deportation for more than one million undocumented immigrants brought to this country as young children by their parents.
DACA, which Trump has ordered dismantled, is widely viewed as the Obama administration’s most successful immigration policy initiative.