Dreamers

There are about 700,000 children living in the US whose parents came here illegally and they are called dreamers. Their status is now a part of the immigration negotiations going on in the congress. Originally the problem evolved when congress would not act and Obama stepped in and said these young people would not be deported until congress clarified their status. Obama stated that he did not have the authority to legalize them but used his action as a stop gap measure allowing congress time to act. "In the absence of any immigration action from Congress to fix our broken immigration system, what we’ve tried to do is focus our immigration enforcement resources in the right places," Obama said June 15, 2012. "This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people." Congress failed to act so Trump is going to end DACA and now a federal judge in California has said that Trump cannot end this program. The interplay between the executive branch and the courts is more complicated than ever.