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Article snippet: Both “Dreamers” and their employers are worried about how the wind-down of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will affect them, as a Trump administration deadline to find a deal on the immigrants approaches. The Senate failed to pass a legislative replacement to the DACA program Thursday, leaving Congress with few legislative options and only four legislative days before MORE's March 5 deadline. Recipients of the program, who were brought to the country illegally as children, won't automatically lose their benefits at once after March 5. The Supreme Court did not say after its conference Friday whether it would hear the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from winding down the Obama-era program. A decision on whether to grant or deny the case could come as soon as Tuesday. House Speaker MORE (R-Wis.) said this week he still wants to pass legislation on DACA in March, but minimized the importance of the deadline Trump set when he canceled the program in September. "We think this deadline's an important deadline. Obviously, with the court ruling it's not as important as it was before," Ryan said. When Attorney General MORE announced the end of DACA, there were 689,800 registered recipients, according to DHS. Under the terms of the memo ending DACA, only beneficiaries whose two-year permit ended before March 6 were allowed to reapply; those whose permit ended March 6 and onwar... Link to the full article to read more