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The Dreamers are college students and adults without legal status who were brought into America by their parents as children. The story of their journeys and their fight to call America home is told in this production devised in collaboration with the California-Mexico Studies Center. Featuring testimonials and interviews from DACA students and community members, these stories of personal struggle invite the question: who gets to dream the American Dream?
Andrea Caban is a Voice and Speech professor at CSU Long Beach and the creator of several one woman shows that have been performed all over the country. Julie Granata-Hunicutt is a MFA Acting/Performance Pedagogy student at CSU Long Beach and a faculty member at Steppenwolf West. The Dreamers: Aquí y Allá is the second production in the Devising Democracy Series. Created in partnership with the California-Mexico Studies Center, a non-profit devoted to bringing educational institutions from California and Mexico together.
The California-Mexico Studies Center offered 160 Dreamers the opportunity to return to Mexico and re-enter legally into the U.S., through 6 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad programs from March 2014 to August 2017. Each participant was required to write a reflection paper on the ethnographic research they conducted on their experience and their family's origins and migration. Unfortunately, the program was eliminated on September 5, 2017 when the Trump administration announced the rescinding of DACA, and cancellation of the Advance Parole provision that allowed the California-Mexico Studies Center to offer this life-changing experience. This play is based on the human stories written by the participants of this study abroad program, recounting their experience, and their attained identity as Mexicans rooted on both sides of the border:
Somos de Aquí y de Allá ! ~ We are from here and from there!
The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere. California-Mexico Studies Center was founded by California State University Long Beach professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos in 2010, as an extension of the California-Mexico Project that he has led since 1998 at the CSULB Chicano and Latino Studies department.
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Do Democrats even want a compromise on immigration?
Officially, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working to craft an immigration fix before the March deadline set by President Trump to wind down a program that protects the so-called Dreamers brought here illegally as children. Unofficially, you have to wonder how much interest Democrats really have in reaching a compromise.
Trump's speech leaves two sides further apart than ever on immigration
WASHINGTON - For years, immigration advocates have defined hundreds of thousands of young people brought to the country illegally as children by the sympathetic term "Dreamers." Long irritated by the rhetorical branding, President Trump finally came up with his own rejoinder: "Americans are Dreamers, too."
Trump sets up a grand bargain on immigration
To end the polarized and paralyzed debate over immigration policy, President Trump has proposed a deal. The president will grant amnesty to an estimated 1.8 million so-called Dreamers - young people who were brought illegally to the United States as children - in return for (a) $25 billion for a wall on the southern border and other border enforcement measures; (b) elimination of the lottery that distributes 50,000 visas per year, with a reallocation of some of those visas to high-skilled immigrants; and (c) curbing chain migration by "limiting family sponsorship to spouses and minor children only."
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