--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Introduces DACA Opponents to Dreamer Baby description: Before grilling porn star Stormy Daniels about her alleged Trump affair, Jimmy Kimmel took some time to address the ongoing DACA controversy. canonical: https://time.com/5126778/jimmy-kimmel-daca-debate-dreamer-baby/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-31T16:03:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:14.504Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Enlists an Dreamer Baby for DACA Debate og:description: Here's what went down during the impromptu immigration debate og:url: https://time.com/5126778/jimmy-kimmel-daca-debate-dreamer-baby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1376087e22dee2e2/6988fa11fb4eac0629895807/screen-shot-2018-01-31-at-10-20-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1183&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1183 og:image:height: 665 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2018-01-31 at 10.20.04 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Enlists an Dreamer Baby for DACA Debate twitter:description: Here's what went down during the impromptu immigration debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1376087e22dee2e2/6988fa11fb4eac0629895807/screen-shot-2018-01-31-at-10-20-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1183&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Enlists a Dreamer Baby to Try to Sway DACA Opponents > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 31, 2018 4:03 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 31, 2018 4:03 PM UTC Before [interviewing porn star Stormy Daniels](http://time.com/5125593/stormy-daniels-on-jimmy-kimmel-interview/), real name Stephanie Clifford, about her [alleged affair](http://time.com/5126038/porn-star-stormy-daniels-denies-affair-with-donald-trump/) with [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5126652/trump-state-of-the-union-opamacare/), Kimmel took some time to address the ongoing DACA controversy. The late night host opened Tuesday’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ by airing a pre-taped clip in which he introduced opponents of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which is set to expire on or before March 5 — to a young Dreamer mother named Esmeralda, her fiancé and their baby. Clearly hoping to sway the DACA opponents on the immigration policy, Kimmel had Esmeralda recount how she was brought to the United States as a child and how her life has progressed since. However, by the end of the debate, only one naysayer seemed to have been softened by the family’s story, with one man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat even calling for the government to start deporting the other 700,000 DACA recipients. “We made almost no progress,” Kimmel admitted. 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