These Are America’s White-Collar Dreamers
Many DACA recipients work in jobs associated with migrant labor, but some are climbing the corporate ladder at companies from GM to Wells Fargo.
Demonstrators hold signs during a rally supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 18, 2018.
Photographer: Zach Gibson/BloombergSeventeen years later, Congress is still struggling with the debate over the fate of the Dreamers.
It started in 2001, with bipartisan legislation allowing children whose parents brought them to the U.S. illegally before they turned 16 to stay, go to school, work and eventually become citizens.