How important is the DACA deadline, really, for Dreamers?

Published February 14, 2018 5:01am ET



As the Senate debates immigration this week, a lot of the focus will be on one date: March 5.

That is the deadline President Trump set for Congress back in September, when he announced he would phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals over six months but was willing to sign a legislative fix for Dreamers, or immigrants who were brought into the United States illegally as children.

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