Congress should act now to protect Dreamers
The lame-duck session is America’s best chance to honour its obligation to child immigrants

The competition is admittedly not fierce. Yet in the long history of giving names to bills and executive orders, there has surely been none so packed with double meaning and poignant implication as “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA). That was the name that President Barack Obama gave his order covering hundreds of thousands of people, known as Dreamers, who were brought to America illegally as children. They dreamed of becoming citizens but were at risk instead of being expelled, a danger stayed by Mr Obama’s order.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “When Dreamers are deferred”
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