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Dreamers is a activity publication for the era brought to the United States as children - and today fighting to reside here officially In the about 12 million undocumented immigrants residing in the United States, as much as two million came as children. They develop up here, going to primary, middle, and senior high school, and then the country they call home won't - in most state governments - offer financial aid for college and they're unable to be legally employed. In 2001, US senator Dick Durbin unveiled the DREAM Act to Congress, an initiative that would allow these young people to be legal residents if they achieved certain requirements. And now, more than 10 years later, in the face of congressional inertia and furious opposition from some, the Desire Act has yet to be handed down. But recently, this young era has begun managing, and using their rallying cry "Undocumented, Unapologetic, and Unafraid" they are the newest face of the real human rights activity. In Dreamers, Eileen Truax illuminates the testimonies of these women and men who are living proof a complex and sometimes invisible political certainty that phone calls into question what it truly methods to be American.
