It must be so tiring â and stressful â to be a dreamer.
To be, we mean, one of the young people enrolled in the Obama-era DACA program â Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals â caught between here and there, trying to build a future in the only country theyâve ever known while Congress and courts play volleyball with their lives. These people, doing the best they can with limitations that would drive many crazy, deserve our respect and our admiration.
They also deserve some action from Congress. But itâs anyoneâs guess when theyâll get it.
The latest plot twist in their drama occurred last week when a federal judge in Texas ruled that DACA was an âillegally implemented programâ and said âthe public interest of the nation is always served by the cessation of a program that was created in violation of law.â His ruling prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from approving new applications to the program, which grants work permits and reprieves from deportation to the dreamers.