DREAM Act

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The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, is a United States legislative proposal that would grant temporary conditional residency, with the right to work, to qualified applicants following illegal immigration to the United States as minors—and, if they later satisfy further qualifications, they would attain permanent residency. In April 2001, United States senators Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) first introduced the bill in the Senate as S. 1291, but it did not pass. The proposal has since been reintroduced several times, and approved by a majority in the House and in the Senate, but not by sufficient margins to overcome filibusters by the Republican Party. The failure of Congress to pass the DREAM Act, despite bipartisan support, led the Obama administration to implement Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which provided renewable, temporary protections for individuals that would have otherwise been protected by the DREAM...

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