Senators reintroduce the “DREAM Act”

In April 2001, two senators introduced the Development, Relief and Education for Immigrant Minors Act (DREAM Act), which initially offered a temporary residence permit to young immigrants known as “Dreamers”. Adding to that, if they met mandatory requirements, this act also offered them a path to permanent residence and eventually American citizenship.

The term “Dreamers” refers to immigrants who came to the US without legal documentation when they were minors. Many of them have resided in the country for decades and are currently essential workers in important sectors such as health, the food supply chain, gastronomy, research, inter alia.

The DREAM Act failed to pass Congress approval multiple times. Thus, in 2012, the Barack Obama administration introduced the program known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which temporarily protects Dreamers from deportation, but does not offer them a path to permanent residence nor citizenship.

Now that President Joe Biden is leading the current administration of the US, Senators Lindsey Graham (Republican) and Dick Durbin (Democrat) reintroduced the DREAM Act for Congress approval on Thursday, February 4, 2021.

They hope that, with President Biden leading the nation, Dreamers will have a permanent solution apart from DACA as, in their view, they play an essential role in the local economic system.

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A sign of relief for Dreamers

The fact that Senators are proposing the DREAM Act again represents a door of hope for thousands of Dreamers, DACA recipients, who have been in limbo during the past four years.

The former president, Donald Trump, did not agree with the idea of ​​offering immigration benefits to foreigners who crossed the borders without legal documentation, regardless of whether they were minors or not.

Thus, during his term, former president Trump and his team tried to remove DACA from benefits offered to immigrants in the US on several occasions, although, after a legal battle that seemed endless, DACA is still available to young immigrants who meet mandatory requirements.

Adding to that, on his first day in office (January 20, 2021), President Joe Biden signed a Memorandum to strengthen and preserve DACA, which is also good news for more than 600,000 immigrants covered by this program.

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