You can say that Obama was pandering for election-year purposes with his announcement last week that the government will no longer deport undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. You can say that the new policy does not go far enough in securing thoroughgoing immigration reform. So be it. The change is nevertheless a tremendous advance that will affect some 800,000 young people who have been living in fear and uncertainty about their ability to stay in the country.
And it is worth spending a moment to pay homage to the DREAM Act students whose extraordinary activism made it possible.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-engler/the-unstoppable-dreamers_b_1615159.html
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