{"id":567,"date":"2021-04-24T03:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T07:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:13","slug":"dreamers-filled-with-worry-hope-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-35-number-1-fall-2020\/dreamers-filled-with-worry-hope-and-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamers: Filled With Worry, Hope, and Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Throughout their lives in the United States, Dreamers have experienced a rollercoaster of emotions: they have worried about their immigration status, hoped that Congress will enact a permanent solution, and resiliently fought against the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (\u201cDACA\u201d) program. Unfortunately, Dreamers will continue to experience this rollercoaster of emotions until the government issues a permanent solution for DACA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, then-President Barack Obama created the DACA program. This program protects eligible undocumented individuals (also known as Dreamers) from deportation by providing them with temporary legal status. \u00a0Moreover, the program grants Dreamers various benefits, including eligibility for work authorization, and state-issued identification. \u00a0Due to its various protections and benefits, DACA\u2019s enactment relieved Dreamers of their fears of being deported from the place they call home. Nonetheless, Dreamers\u2019 fears and doubts regarding their undocumented status resurfaced when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened legal action if the DACA program was not terminated by September of 2017. Feeling pressure from Texas and other states, the Trump administration rescinded DACA in September 2017. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of the DACA program, announced \u201c[w]e cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. It\u2019s just that simple.\u201d Sessions missed one key detail\u2014Dreamers did not choose to come to the United States illegally, they were brought here as children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Continue Reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/04\/11-Dreamers-Filled-With-Worry-Hope-and-Resilience-1.pdf\">Dreamers: Filled With Worry, Hope, and Resilience<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout their lives in the United States, Dreamers have experienced a rollercoaster of emotions: they have worried about their immigration status, hoped that Congress will enact a permanent solution, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"parent":505,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions\/570"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}