DREAM Act
Young immigrants' bill
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) is proposed U.S. legislation that would provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who arrived as children.
The bill has been introduced multiple times since 2001 but never passed.
She qualified under the DREAM Act criteria.
Recipients of related executive action are often called Dreamers.
- illegalForbidden by statute
- borderOuter edge or limit
- DACAYouth immigration protection program
- path to citizenshipLegal process for immigrants
- detentionTemporary official holding
authorization · undocumented immigrants · in-state tuition · deportation · coyote · immigrant rights · checkpoint · naturalization · college readiness · immigration reform · congressional debate · bipartisan bill · financial aid · asylum seekers · border security · family reunification · refugee resettlement · adjustment of status
DREAM Actdeportation policy
Rules governing forced removal
mass deportation · self-deportation · immigration enforcement · border wall
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