DREAM Act Students Push For Deferred Deportation Action

DREAM Act Students Push For Deferred Deportation Action: The Obama administration is quietly halting some deportations of undocumented young people, after a memo in June that directed immigration officials to consider reprieve for students and would-be military members. Meanwhile, young people facing deportation are still forced to jump through hoops to stay in the United States.

Monji Dolon, a 25-year-old born in Bangladesh, is slated for deportation and applying for deferred action from the government, which would allow him to stay in the U.S. legally for another year. He's a poster child for the DREAM Act, a failed bill that would allow some immigrants legal status in exchange for two years of college or military service. Dolon has a clean criminal record and graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008.