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Jean Guerrero: If Congress won't help the 'Dreamers,' Biden should

High school students and members of the public rally at the Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles before marching to MacArthur Park Nov. 12, 2019, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Washington, D.C., on the possible cancellation of the DACA program.

It's been 10 years since President Barack Obama announced from the White House Rose Garden that tens of thousands of people who grew up in the United States would be allowed to temporarily work here without fear of deportation.

Obama called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, "a temporary stopgap measure." But Congress has not passed any permanent protections for these individuals, known as "Dreamers." Now even the stopgap could die after a federal judge halted new DACA applications last year. The case, from Republican-led litigation, could be headed to an unfriendly Supreme Court.

Democrats have

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