Waking Dream

Waking Dream cuts beyond politics to reveal the reality of undocumented young people working tenaciously for a brighter future in the U.S.
by Theo Rigby1 mins
Waking Dream
In 2012, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) gave 800,000 undocumented young people who had been in the US since childhood a chance to work legally, attend college, start businesses, and pursue the "American Dream." When the program was rescinded by the Trump administration in 2017, DACA recipients suddenly risked losing it all. Waking Dream weaves together the stories of six undocumented young people as they sit in limbo between deportation and a path to citizenship, fighting for legal status, struggling with the deportation of family members, and pursuing their dreams in a country trying harder to push them out.
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