https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfSLjNU9dBo The video above follows the lives of 6 medical students and reveals their thoughts on the possibility of losing their work permits and having to go back to their native countries. At least 65 DACA recipients are in medical school, and half of them are enrolled in the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago.... Continue Reading →
A Dreamer’s Life
The word "dream" has a universally positive connotation associated with it. People usually consider dreams to be the happy places during sleep that connect their inner thoughts and beliefs. For some people in our society, being a dreamer entails the continuous uncertainty of potentially being forced to leave the country due to citizenship laws here,... Continue Reading →
ONCE AN IMMIGRANT, ALWAYS A DREAMER: Refutation
President Trump has made numerous headlines for demanding the building of the border wall if the American people do not want to see DACA dismantled. Although DACA is an effective plan for DREAMERS to live, work, and study in the U.S., the cost of the border wall dividing Mexico and the U.S. would cost an... Continue Reading →
The World needs DREAMERS
As previously stated, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) are for minors who entered the country illegally, and allow them to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation. Thus, allowing students to stay and reach their educational potential. As learned in a Digital Media and... Continue Reading →