The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an immigration hearing next week, which will include a review on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, that the Trump administration announced it is shutting down, The Hill reports.
Senator Chuck Grassley’s office announced that the panel, which the Iowa Republican chairs, will hold a hearing Wednesday on reforms to the DACA program and the guest worker program.
The full title of the hearing is the “the long-term impact of immigration: exploring reforms to our nation’s guest worker programs and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and their potential impact on the American economy and local communities.”
Officials from the Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security, as well as immigration and economic outside groups, are expected to testify. The announcement comes after Senator John Cornyn told reporters earlier Wednesday that the committee would hold a DACA-related hearing next week.
“Chairman Grassley of the Judiciary Committee intends to hold a hearing to address DACA and other matters,” said Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday that the Trump administration would end DACA, as he and President Donald Trump both called on Congress to find a legislative solution.
The hearing comes as senators from both parties have said they want to deal with the program, but a path forward or a timeline remains unclear, The Hill writes.
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