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Who are DREAMers?

Dreamers are students who were brought to the U.S. as children and may be undocumented, DACA recipients, TPS recipients, or other domestic students ineligible to complete the FAFSA.

CBU DREAMers
Learn more about how CBU serves DREAMers and undocumented students.

DREAM Act

The DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act is a piece of legislation introduced in 2001 that grants conditional residency to minors who entered the United States before their sixteenth birthday.

DREAM Act Congressional Legislative History
The DREAM Act has had a rocky and complicated history. This site from the University of Houston Law Center shows its progress in real time, from the bill that introduced it through its various permutations, to the current bills in Congress.
Dream Act Topic Overview
Report from Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, last updated February 2023.

DACA

Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Archived site from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This page provided information on requesting consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA).