The 'Dream9' Protest: Youth Activists' Tactics Grow Bolder - and Riskier Leslie Berestein Rojas - Southern California Public Radio
go to original July 25, 2013

The "Dream9" protesters march with linked arms last Monday to the U.S. port of entry in Nogales, where they planned to request humanitarian parole. Their request was denied and they remain in a detention facility in Arizona. (Samantha Sais)

What started out a few years ago as a small number of young people going public with their legal status has grown into a movement that has helped influence the immigration debate. And as it has, these young immigrants' activism has grown bolder — and riskier.

Last week, three young people born in Mexico left the United States for a country they last saw as children and teens, when they were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

There they joined five others like them, kids who grew up in the U.S. but returned voluntary or were deported in recent years, before the Obama administration began a program last year that might have granted them temporary legal status. Their plan was to seek re-entry at the border as a test of U.S. policies, while championing the cause of American-raised young people left out of the immigration reform debate because they're no longer in the country.

They weren't allowed back in.

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