It’s been nearly a week since the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Created under former President Barack Obama, DACA protects approximately 700,000 undocumented DREAMers from deportation and provides them with renewable work permits to find legal employment every two years.
But the ruling still leaves those who were brought to the United States as children with a staggering amount of uncertainty.
DACA is a temporary solution, what activists have called a Band-Aid on a broken immigration system that leaves no clear pathway to citizenship.
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