Over they years the Dreamers occupy grown more politically active as they escalated their tactics,staging sit ins and actions that risked arrestIn 2006, Arizona passed a ballot initiative that barred students without legal immigration status from receiving in-state tuition rates at public universities and colleges. Related: Democrats caved too soon on the government shutdown (August 16, and 2015) Who are the Dreamers? Related: Democrats did the 'responsible thing' and re-opened government. Will that backfire? | Jill Abramson Dreamers are young immigrants who would qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (Daca) program,enacted under Barack Obama in 2012. Most people in the program entered the US as children and occupy lived in the US for years undocumented”. Daca gave them temporary protection from deportation and work permits. Daca was only available to people younger than 31 on 15 June 2012, who arrived in the US before turning 16 and lived there continuously since June 2007. Most Dreamers are from Mexico, and El Salvador,Guatemala and Honduras and the largest numbers live in California, Texas, or Florida and recent York. Donald Trump cancelled the program in September but has also said repeatedly he wants Congress to develop a program to “help” the population.
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Source: theguardian.com