This
Week on Due Process
"DREAM
Act: One Step Closer"
airs:
Sunday August
5 at 9:30 am and 7 pm
on
A presidential initiative
is bringing new hope to hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people -
brought to this country as children, raised as Americans, but barred, until now,
from legal status.
On this edition of Due Process, the process, the pitfalls and the politics of the Obama order, and how it falls far short of the hard-fought, but defeated, "Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act."
The DREAM Act would have transformed their lives, started them on a path to citizenship, but it went down to defeat in Congress in December of 2010.
The new Obama move has no provision for permanence, and could disappear with the presidential election, but it's still brought cheers from the left and condemnation from the right. Undocumented youth who qualify could come out of the shadows, with the right to legally work, free of the threat of arrest and deportation - for now.
A Due Process mini-doc, produced by Sandra King and Associate Producer Tania Ivanova, features a Rutgers honors student, Marisol Conde-Hernandez - brought to this country at 18 months, and risking her freedom by coming out publicly as undocumented.
Conde-Hernandez is also featured in the studio, along with Herb London of the Hudson and Manhattan Institutes and Lori Nessel of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice.
On this edition of Due Process, the process, the pitfalls and the politics of the Obama order, and how it falls far short of the hard-fought, but defeated, "Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act."
The DREAM Act would have transformed their lives, started them on a path to citizenship, but it went down to defeat in Congress in December of 2010.
The new Obama move has no provision for permanence, and could disappear with the presidential election, but it's still brought cheers from the left and condemnation from the right. Undocumented youth who qualify could come out of the shadows, with the right to legally work, free of the threat of arrest and deportation - for now.
A Due Process mini-doc, produced by Sandra King and Associate Producer Tania Ivanova, features a Rutgers honors student, Marisol Conde-Hernandez - brought to this country at 18 months, and risking her freedom by coming out publicly as undocumented.
Conde-Hernandez is also featured in the studio, along with Herb London of the Hudson and Manhattan Institutes and Lori Nessel of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice.
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