- African American artist, educator, and activist Edythe Boone has been changing the world one mural at a time for decades, then tragedy strikes.
- "Have you thought about being president someday?" Dulce Garcia asks her students. "You should." She wishes she had someone encouraging her at that age. Instead, Dulce's guidance counselor told her she would never get a job as an undocumented immigrant.
Today, Dulce is a successful attorney who represents other immigrants seeking legal status. During law school she received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). She recently opened her own firm and was ready to start a family. In 2017 President Trump ended the DACA program, and Dulce envisioned the life she'd built come crashing down. Less than two weeks later, she became the first DACA recipient to file a lawsuit to restore DACA and it is likely her case will be brought before the Supreme Court.
A Dream Deferred will follow Dulce as she lives and breathes her activism at speaking events, in press interviews, representing clients, and as a litigant defending her own right to remain in the US. The film will also highlight other undocumented immigrant activists, using a vérité-style approach to tell their stories as they fight for justice through the courts, grassroots organizing and legislative reform.
The activists are not just fighting to defend DACA - they are putting themselves at risk to shape the conversation around immigration. This is a time when a presidential advisor has recommended revoking the citizenship of naturalized immigrants and the President has referred to all Mexican immigrants as "criminals".. DACA is the litmus test that will affect how other immigration battles will be fought. If legislators cannot join the majority of Americans in supporting DACA, the will to pass comprehensive reform seems like an impossible dream. A dream, deferred. Indefinitely.
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