‘Documented Dreamers’ urge US lawmakers to pass ‘America’s Children Act’

After stumbling from door to door, a large number of ‘documented dreamers’, including Indian-Americans, now want the uncertainty about their future to end. ‘Documented Dreamers’ are long-term visa holders who came to the US as children with their parents, grew up living there legally, but are subject to deportation when they turn 21. A group of ‘Documented Dreamers’ has approached several lawmakers at the US Capitol, urging them to support the recently introduced ‘America’s Children Act’. These young ‘Dreamers’ number around 2,50,000.

They are demanding such necessary law changes from MPs, which can clear the way for their citizenship. Deep Patel, founder of ‘Improve the Dream’, an organization fighting on behalf of ‘documented dreamers’, said, “It’s time to permanently address this age-related problem and pass the ‘America’s Children Act’.” Muhil Ravichandran, 24, who came to the US at the age of two, said she now has to move out of the country she has called home for nearly two decades. Ravichandran said, “It means I have to leave my family, because they have already got their green cards. It is very painful that I have to spend every day in the shadow of the fear that I will have to leave my house just because I have reached the limit of age.

Patel said four years ago the son of a milk producer had to leave the country after living in the US for over 19 years. He said that similarly a nursing graduate living in the US for the last 17 years had to leave the country two years back when the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak and there was a shortage of nursing staff in the country. Patel said, “This year more than 10,000 people are facing similar threats. There is no justification for this. For us, our family is our country and that is why we need ‘America’s Children Act’.

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