New policy lets DREAM Act students work, avoid deportation

San Antonio Current | June 21, 2012
Undocumented students across the country breathed a collective a sigh of relief Friday as the Obama administration announced an executive order to immigration officials to stop detaining and deporting DREAM Act-eligible immigrants while offering renewable two-year permits to legally work in the U.S.

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