President, can you do something to help them? And he did. He
created something called DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals. It was an Executive order that said to these young people: If
you fit that definition of the DREAM Act and if you will come forward
and pay a filing fee of $500 or more, if you will submit yourself to a
criminal background check and give us all of your background
information about you and your family, then, we will give you
temporary, renewable status to stay in America, not be deported, and be
allowed to work. It was a big leap for many of these young people to do it because
they had grown up in families where, in whispered conversations in the
evening, their parents told them: Be careful. If you get arrested and
they come to see this family, many of us will be forced to leave this
country.
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