Campaign for an American DREAM

So, what has happened since the DREAM Act failed to pass last year in the nation's Senate? Well, we have not retreated back to the shadows, that is for sure. The national immigrant youth community encountered a major blow with the federal DREAM Act's failure last December, but we bounced back into the limelight with revitalized strength. Being that we could not pass our DREAM Act at the national level, we took the fight back to the state level and we have had surprising results. There have been as many as ten states which have introduced and passed there own versions of the DREAM Act, which basically enables undocumented students living in those respective states a chance at going to a university or college and paying in-state tuition fees instead of out-of-state tuition fees.
Furthermore, since the Obama administration's record-setting deportation numbers seem to increase everyday, the national immigrant youth movement has not remained quiet about this statistic. There have been several civil disobedience acts strategically done by courageous DREAMers across the nation to show the American people the power and visibility that the undocumented youth movement really has and that we are not afraid anymore.
So, beginning in early 2012, five brave DREAM Act eligible students will embark on a walk across the nation. It is known as a Campaign for an American DREAM or (CAD), as these five valiant souls begin their walk to Washington, D.C. starting their journey in San Francisco, California! It will take them approximately eight months to complete this unimaginable feat, but along the way they will invoke the communities they travel through on new conversations about the broken immigration system the U.S. currently has and promote the passage of the federal DREAM Act so as to make it a reality in the nearest future!
I made a support video for this amazing initiative and here it is:

I hope you all enjoyed my video podcast and contribution!