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DREAM Act

Despite deportation fears, this DACA recipient and Nashville business owner hopes for a future here in America

Char Daston

January 31, 2025

A man in a blue coat sits at a table in a coffee shop. Light shines in from a glass wall behind him.
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Luis Cortes owns four Red Bicycle Coffee shops. He’s lived in this country for almost 25 years. But he still must plan for what happens if he’s deported.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: DACA, DREAM Act, dreamers, illegal immigration, Immigration

DACA Youth From Tennessee Take Their Fight For The DREAM Act To D.C.

Julieta Martinelli

November 8, 2017

Listen Thousands of immigrant students from all over the country with temporary legal protections through DACA are descending on Washington D.C. That includes a caravan coming from Tennessee. They will join in others in asking their state representatives to push for a vote on the Dream Act before December.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: DACA, DREAM Act

Tennessee Undocumented Immigrants Line Up for Legal Status

Blake Farmer

August 15, 2012

Immigration attorneys across the country and in Nashville say their offices are overflowing with young undocumented aliens. Starting Wednesday, immigrants who were brought across the border by their parents can apply for temporary legal status.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: DACA, DREAM Act

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