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In the summer of 2012, President Barack Obama signed an executive order known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allowed some persons who arrived in the United States illegally as children to defer deportation, obtain work permits, and attend university: This executive order was intended to be a temporary fix after Congress failed to pass a more comprehensive immigration reform package known as the DREAM Act. Later, in 2014, it seemed likely that a bipartisan, legislative effort to resolve the status of 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States might succeed. It was in this political climate that Vice President Biden made remarks on the subject to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on 27 March 2014, as reported by The Hill: The statement represented a more liberal immigration policy than that envisioned by President Obama at the time: Comprehensive immigration reform remains elusive, and the Trump Administration has aggressively challenged the constitutionality of the DACA initiative signed into law by Obama.
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