Mario Diaz-Balart
  
  
    
      
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
    
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        September 8, 2017 -
        
  
        Following President Trump's decision to phase out the Obama-era DACA program that spared from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, there's a renewed urgency to pass the federal Dream Act, which would offer them a path to citizenship — and Southern lawmakers may provide the key votes needed.