Marie From Missouri

Marie From Missouri

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With the deadline for DACA to expire approaching, we visit the story of a woman who was part of the first wave of Dreamer activists. Marie Gonzalez-Deel and her family were outed as undocumented in 2001. That’s when she reluctantly became an activist fighting for a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants. Marie’s story is featured in a new book about the Dreamer movement by Laura Wides-Muñoz, titled “The Making of a Dream.” Maria Hinojosa sits down Gonzalez-Deel and Wides-Muñoz to talk about the experience of being young and undocumented, and what’s happening now in Congress with DACA.