The Dream 9

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With DACA and the Dreamers poised to be back in the center of the national conversation, Latino USA revisits this episode about what it means to be young and undocumented in the United States today. In 2013, a group of young undocumented activists known as the Dream 9 staged one of the riskiest protests in the history of the immigration rights movement. They willingly left the U.S. to Mexico, and then demanded to be let back into the country despite lacking legal status. Their efforts landed them in detention—and in the national spotlight.

This episode originally aired in October 2015.

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0:00.0	Futuro
0:02.0	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Innojosa.
0:16.0	Today, the story of The Dream 9, a group of young undocumented activists who in 2013 staged one of the
0:25.0	riskiest protests in the history of the immigration rights movement in the United States.
0:32.7	Welcome to Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. For the so-called dreamers, undocumented young people,
0:41.7	life in the United States is a constant limbo. They arrived in the United States as children
0:46.9	and made this country their only home, many times even unaware that they were undocumented.
0:54.2	Today, a lot of dreamers are enrolled in a program known as DACA,
0:59.1	or deferred action for childhood arrivals,
1:03.2	which has allowed them to work, study, and live in the United States
1:06.9	with identification and less fear of deportation. But in 2017, then President Donald Trump
1:15.5	tried to fulfill his campaign promise of rescinding the DACA program entirely, program established
1:22.7	by his predecessor, President Barack Obama in 2012. After the case reached the Supreme Court in 2020,
1:31.3	Trump was unable to terminate the program. Then in 2021, President Joe Biden's administration
1:37.6	renewed DACA. But following that renewal, a Texas district court ruled that DACA was unconstitutional.
1:47.0	In September of 2023, the Texas court found the program illegal once again.
1:54.7	And while advocates have tried to reverse this ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has also deemed DACA unlawful. So the case could end up
2:05.5	back at the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, as dreamers keep fighting to keep DACA alive with legal challenges,
2:13.2	the program is allowed to continue. Well, we here at Latino USA wanted to revisit an episode
2:19.4	that we originally ran in the year 2015, just about a decade ago. It's about a group of
2:26.1	activists known as the Dream 9. And while the Dream 9 are not DACA recipients, we're going to
2:33.3	tell you why their story shows what's at stake
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