What's With All These Other DREAM Acts?

As President Donald Trump pledges to roll back Obama-era protections from deportation, lawmakers are working to provide a new legal pathway to citizenship for the group of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. They hope to reimagine and reintroduce the proposed DREAM Act of 2001, before existing immigration legislation is completely dismantled.

A new report from the Migration Policy Institute examines the five different legislation proposals currently in the pipeline, all of which would address the legal status of these DREAMers. Each proposal is broken down by its breadth of coverage: how many would be eligible for legalization; how many could eventually gain conditional permanent resident status; and how many could then, finally, get green cards.