remain committed to working with President Biden and my colleagues to protect DACA and provide all immigrant youth with the opportunities and support they need to succeed
Work with President Biden and colleagues to protect DACA and support immigrant youth with opportunities and support.
Occurrences
Evidence
“I will never give up my fight to ensure Dreamers permanent status and a pathway to citizenship and remain committed to working with President Biden and my colleagues to protect DACA and provide all immigrant youth with the opportunities and support they need to succeed.” The release also says he commended the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to expand affordable health care coverage to DACA recipients.
The page states Espaillat is ‘leading the way on comprehensive immigration reform’ and lists DACA-related work, including the BRIDGE Act: ‘Provide temporary relief from deportation and employment authorization to individuals who are eligible for the Department of Homeland Security's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program.’ It also shows recent 2025–2026 immigration activity, including opposition to DHS funding and immigration oversight actions.
The framework, co-led by Adriano Espaillat and Rob Menendez, includes the directive to ‘Protect America’s Dreamers and DACA Recipients through Congressional and ...’ and broader immigrant-support policy proposals.
This March 31, 2026 press release shows Espaillat continuing active legislative and caucus work in the 119th Congress, but it is unrelated to DACA or immigrant-youth support.
Assessments
The promise is framed as working with President Biden and colleagues to protect DACA and support immigrant youth, not as a guaranteed final enactment. Evidence shows Espaillat publicly made this commitment, backed Biden administration action expanding health coverage to DACA recipients, and continued broader pro-DACA legislative and caucus advocacy. However, the record provided does not show that he secured a durable protection of DACA or a major completed policy outcome for immigrant youth attributable to him. There is meaningful effort and some supportive administrative progress, but not clear full fulfillment of the broader protection promise.