--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5292 og:image:height: 2977 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ivanka Trump: DACA Needs a 'Long-Term' Fix > Sponsored content. 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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"}}]}] ```