Keeping the Dream Alive: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the Necessary Next Step

Abstract

In September 2017, the Trump administration announced it was repealing the executive memorandum that provided Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Rescinding DACA revokes protections promised to hundreds of thousands of people brought to the United States as children who now reside in the United States without immigration status. This Note proposes that because both DACA's implementation and its repeal were constitutional, Congress must act to prevent those protected by the DACA program from having their previous trust in the U.S. government now used against them.