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DREAM Activists To Cross Border For Second Protest
The group that organized a border crossing this summer is at it again. This time they're trying to bring 30 Mexican citizens who once lived in the United States across the border to protest the slow pace of immigration reform.
Last July, the National Immigrant Youth Alliance organized a protest involving eight people in Nogales. They were all born in Mexico and came to the U.S. as children. Some went back to Mexico before President Barack Obama granted a temporary immigration reprieve known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Others went to join them. When they returned they were detained for two weeks, were released, and now await an asylum hearing.
Now activists want to bring 30 people across next Monday. This time, through Laredo, Texas.
Edgar Torres was deported at 18 for getting into a fight in Houston. He's living in Monterrey, Mexico now. He'll be in that group of 30.
"I don’t know any legal jargon but the main point is just to get across, to get support from the public and basically hoping that Obama will end up pulling some through this time," he said.
But Torres said doesn't know what legal argument the protesters will use to convince the U.S. to let them stay.
