Los Otros: US-Raised Dreamers Are Building New Lives - Back in Mexico Kate Linthicum - The Los Angeles Times
go to original November 4, 2014

United We Dream activists rally at the White House in July. Los Otros Dreamers, in Mexico, hope to improve the lives of those who've returned to Mexico. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

They call themselves "Los Otros Dreamers" — the other Dreamers — a reference to young immigrants living in the U.S. who would benefit from the Dream Act, a congressional bill that would provide a path to citizenship for some immigrants who were brought to America illegally as children.

Unlike their counterparts north of the border, Los Otros Dreamers would not benefit from any broader amnesty legislation. Many left the U.S. before President Obama announced his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which granted half a million immigrants in the country illegally a temporary stay of deportation.

Others, including those who had been convicted of certain crimes, wouldn't have qualified.

And yet many still have friends and family members in the U.S. and claim strong ties to American culture.

The collective formed a couple of years ago with the help of Jill Anderson, an American academic who was doing research in Mexico City. Anderson became intrigued by the call center near her house, whose employees dressed in American clothes and spoke English with Southern California accents.

...The activists say the Mexican government has been slow to meet the needs of the more than 1.4 million people who have returned from the U.S., either by choice or because of deportation, since 2005, a figure that includes hundreds of thousands of young people who spent their formative years in America.

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