President Trump is using the long weekend to finalize the details of his decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which will be announced on Tuesday.

Former President Barack Obama’s June 2012 executive order establishing DACA was a mistake, but Trump should deliberate more on the program’s value. At least to Trump, DACA’s value is its use as a bargaining chip, a value that’s gone if he eliminates DACA by executive order on Tuesday. He should allow DACA to partially stay in place in exchange for conservative immigration reforms under a comprehensive congressional immigration reform bill. Trump could agree to normalization of those with clean records who were brought here as children as part of a deal for the southern border wall or parts of his favored RAISE Act.