From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, Senator Dick Durbin spent 16 years trying and failing to pass immigration reform in Congress.

It failed under President Bush. It failed under President Obama.

Could the outcome of the White House ending DACA be that it passes under President Trump?

It's Thursday, September 7.

Cheryl Gastelberg, where does the Dream Act begin in Congress?

The Dream Act goes all the way back to 2001 when a guidance counselor for a young South Korean woman,

a woman whose family immigrated from South Korea, reached out to Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.

A young woman named Teresa, Teresa Lee in Chicago came to this country undocumented at the age of two.

Senator Durbin spoke to the Times the day DACA was rescinded.

She was in a very poor family, but she learned how to play the piano and turned out to be a prodigy.

By the time she was finishing high school, she was being encouraged to apply to Juilliard and the Manhattan Conservatory music.

And so, when she sat down to do the application, said to her mother, what do I put here for, nationality or citizenship, or maybe so I don't know.

So, they contacted us and said, what can we do?

Well, turnout of the law was very clear and very cruel.

It said that Theresa Lee had to leave the United States for 10 years and then petitioned to come back in.

I thought for a girl who was probably 18 at the time, that was a pretty harsh outcome.

And this touched Dick Durbin or so he says and he introduced the Dream Act as a result.

Footnote on Theresa went to the Manhattan Conservatory music, graduated, played in Carnegie Hall, stayed on in New York,

married a jazz musician, became legal, mother of two.

Now I believe she's completed her PhD in music, but we introduced the bill and it was interesting what happened next.

The Republican supported it or in a hatch was my original response to the bill.

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