Senate panel reschedules DACA hearing after delay

The Senate Judiciary Committee has rescheduled a hearing for an executive immigration program that President Trump has decide to end, the committee announced Tuesday. 

Previously postponed due to the Trump administration’s efforts to provide emergency aid to the hurricane-damaged states of Florida and Texas, the committee will now address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Oct. 4. 

On Monday, House Democrats sought to force a vote on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act. That bill would codify many of the protections nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants receive under DACA, which defers deportation for people brought to the U.S. illegally as children and allows them to apply for work permits.

{mosads}Republican senators unveiled an alternative bill, the Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, that would provide a “merit-based” path to eventual citizenship for the people who were brought into the country illegally under the age of 16. 

Congress has been scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s decision to end DACA, which came with a delay of six months so that lawmakers could craft a legislative replacement.   

The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in the Hart Senate Office Building, according to the statement.