By David J. Butler

For more than two decades, America’s immigration debate has circled around one unresolved question: what to do about Dreamers — the young people brought here as children who have grown up American in every way except legal status.

Their lives have been held hostage by lawsuits, politics and congressional paralysis. Now, amid a new round of Trump-era enforcement and court battles, their future is once again in peril.

The story began in 2001, when Sens. Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch introduced the DREAM Act.

It would have granted permanent legal status — and ultimately citizenship — to undocumented youth who met strict standards: arrival as minors, years of residence, clean records and proof of education or military service. Despite bipartisan backing and repeated reintr

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