Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has long led the push to provide a permanent legal status for “DREAMers” — young adults in the United States illegally who were brought to the country as children.
Durbin was in the mix on multiple bipartisan deals in recent months, as the clock ticked toward a March 5 expiration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Trump decided in September 2017 to end.
But with Congress still gridlocked on DACA and the Supreme Court refusing to intervene in two federal cases negating that deadline, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat seems to be throwing in the towel.
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