A protester holds up a sign as U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colorado, talks during a town hall meeting with constituents in a high school assembly hall Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, in Greenwood Village, Colo. Coffman was peppered with questions about gun control in the wake of the mass shooting at a school in south Florida last week. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

AURORA | Congressman Mike Coffman is forging ahead with a measure that would extend protections for young immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colorado, talks during a news conference before a town hall meeting with constituents in a high school assembly hall Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, in Greenwood Village, Colo. Coffman was peppered with questions about gun control in the wake of the mass shooting in south Florida last week. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Coffman’s BRIDGE Act would extend the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival executive order, called DACA, for three years before Congress would be forced to address the issue again. Coffman has previously said while it is a legislative fix to the executive order, it’s only a temporary solution.

Coffman put the maneuver on hold late last year — called a discharge petition — with hopes that a DREAM Act would make its way through Congress before the March 5 deadline set forth by President Donald Trump when he rescinded the order in September.

Negations over the act resulted in a three-day government shut down.

“March 5th has arrived and Congress has yet to reach an agreement on #DACA. As I promised, I am now moving forward with the discharge petition on the #BridgeAct. I call upon my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to sign the discharge petition to protect #Dreamers.” pic.twitter.com/1VPZtgUPez

— Mike Coffman (@RepMikeCoffman) March 5, 2018

The petition for Coffman’s act would force a vote and requires 218 signatures to reach the House floor.

“I hoped we would have passed a lasting legislative solution for the dreamers through regular order by now, but we have not,” Coffman, R-Aurora, said in a letter to House members. “So, the time for a discharge petition has arrived… We must give these youths the certainty that they can continue to work and study here in the U.S. while Congress debates boarder legislation to fix our flawed immigration system. Providing them this peace of mind is immensely important to them, their families and their communities.”

While Trump’s deadline is now passed, DACA is still mostly intact because the Supreme Court refused to hear a case last month that would have addressed whether Trump can shut down the DACA program. By doing so, the case is expected to move through the court system.

Dreamers could be in limbo through the midterm election, some in Congress say.

There’s no word how quickly Coffman’s petition could reach the House floor. A spokesman for Coffman said there isn’t a definite timeline.