Interview: Documentary American DREAMers Puts Faces to Immigration Issue
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- Category: Interviews
- Published: Monday, 26 October 2015 14:38
- Written by Lupe Rodriguez Haas
In 2012 before his re-election, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) allowing 1.7 million undocumented youth a legal presence in the United States and 2-year work permits. Not only did immigration groups pressure the President into acting on his promise for immigration reform, but undocumented youth staged a series of sit-ins and hunger-strikes in Obama’s campaign offices in cities across the nation. For some that included walking 3,000 miles across America to do so. The feature documentary “American DREAMers” chronicles a group of college students, young professionals, activists, and community leaders walking across America to fight for immigration reform at a huge risk to themselves. For some, it meant coming out publicly as undocumented. CineMovie spoke to first-time directors Saray Deiseil and Jenniffer Castillo about their feature documentary, “American DREAMers.”
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