"DREAM Act: One Step Closer"
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On week four of our summer run on Thirteen - 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. Now, more comprehensive immigration reform is pending - but there is resistance, and no guarantee.
The Obama move for kids raised in this country has no provision for permanence, and could disappear with the next president, 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.
It's an immigration initiative that's worth a closer look, as the larger fight rages in Washington.
Sandy and Raymond.
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