--- title: Ivanka Trump on DACA: It Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix description: Ivanka Trump said Monday that she thinks there needs to be "a long-term congressional fix" to protect Dreamers. canonical: https://time.com/4975438/ivanka-trump-daca-dreamers-fortune-mpw/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-10T00:45:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:47:29.731Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ivanka Trump: DACA Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix og:description: She called it a "complicated issue" og:url: https://time.com/4975438/ivanka-trump-daca-dreamers-fortune-mpw/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3afc46cc148213ae/6988df5a22fb85a638e2301b/china-ivankas-secret_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ivanka Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ivanka Trump: DACA Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix twitter:description: She called it a "complicated issue" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3afc46cc148213ae/6988df5a22fb85a638e2301b/china-ivankas-secret_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ivanka Trump: DACA Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 10, 2017 12:45 AM UTC  This July 8, 2017 photo shows Ivanka Trump at the Women's Entrepreneurship Finance event at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. This July 8, 2017 photo shows Ivanka Trump at the Women's Entrepreneurship Finance event at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany.Evan Vucci—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 10, 2017 12:45 AM UTC Ivanka Trump said Monday that she thinks there needs to be “a long-term congressional fix” to protect beneficiaries of the [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program](http://time.com/4969492/daca-dreamers-renewal-deadline/?iid=sr-link5). “This is a very complicated issue that needs a long-term congressional fix,” Trump said at the [Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit](https://www.fortuneconferences.com/most-powerful-women-summit-2017/) in Washington. “I personally am of the opinion— and the president has stated this— that we have to figure out a good solution that protects these innocent people, many of whom were brought to the country as children.” DACA is an Obama-era policy that shielded around 700,000 immigrants brought illegally to the country as children from deportation. The Trump Administration [announced in September](http://time.com/4927495/donald-trump-statement-daca-rescind/) that it would end. President Trump has since been working on a deal with Democrats in Congress on a legislative solution that could allow Dreamers to avoid deportation. But the White House’s [new list of demands](http://time.com/4974506/donald-trump-dreamer-daca-immigration/?xid=homepage) on immigration could hamper the negotiations. “There has to be a long-term fix,” Ivanka Trump continued. “It can’t be bandaged over on a presidential level by another executive order.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4975438/ivanka-trump-daca-dreamers-fortune-mpw/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4975438/ivanka-trump-daca-dreamers-fortune-mpw/"},"headline":"Ivanka Trump: DACA Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix","datePublished":"2017-10-10T00:45:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:47:29.731Z","description":"She called it a \"complicated issue\"","url":"https://time.com/4975438/ivanka-trump-daca-dreamers-fortune-mpw/","keywords":["White House","Ivanka Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3afc46cc148213ae/6988df5a22fb85a638e2301b/china-ivankas-secret_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3afc46cc148213ae/6988df5a22fb85a638e2301b/china-ivankas-secret_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ivanka Trump","caption":"Ivanka Trump","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4975438/ivanka-trump-daca-dreamers-fortune-mpw/","name":"Ivanka Trump: DACA Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix"}}]}] ```