Foreword
Congress has been considering ways to provide legal residency to certain qualifying
undocumented migrants who entered the United States as children for nearly two decades.
In 2012, after efforts to pass the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors)
Act to grant those children legal status, failed again, the Obama administration issued a June 15
memorandum instating provisions of it through unilateral executive action.
Undocumented U.S. residents who entered the country as children and met eligibility
criteria could apply for two-year normalized residency status that would allow them to be
lawfully employed and have access to other benefits of legalized immigration status. Hundreds
of thousands of eligible individuals …
