Dreamers Activists Will Attempt to Cross Back Into US from Mexico Ed Pilkington - The Guardian
go to original September 29, 2013

Monday's action is the latest in the protest movement mounted by Dreamers – the largely Hispanic, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US when they were in their infancy. (colorlines.com)

At 1pm on Monday, Rocio Hernandez Perez and 29 other young people will walk in a convoy across the bridge over the Rio Bravo and head for the Nuevo Laredo border crossing between Mexico and the US.

Dressed uniformly in graduation caps and gowns in the style of American students, which most of them once were, they will present themselves to US border guards on the Texas side of the crossing and in effect beg to be arrested.

They expect to be handcuffed and removed into a side room in the Nuevo Laredo border post for processing. If all goes according to plan, they will then be taken into detention where they will be held in custody for what could be several weeks.

Monday's action at the Nuevo Laredo crossing is the latest in a burgeoning protest movement organized by Dreamers – the largely Hispanic, undocumented immigrants who were brought to America when they were in their infancy. The mass presentation will be the largest such event yet, following last month's group infiltration of a detention centre in Arizona by nine young activists calling themselves the "Dream Nine".

All 30 of the Laredo activists have spent most of their lives in the US, speak fluent English, and feel themselves to be fully American. Yet all of them have been forced to live outside the country, five because they were deported from the US and the remainder because they were made to feel so uncomfortable and frustrated by growing hostility in their home states that they did what Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, suggested and "self-deported".

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