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Originally Posted by Spock
lets call ourselves.... the muthafuckas!!!  yeaaah
lol but on a more serious note how about "adults brought here as children who have been stuck in limbo due to our broken immigration system."
maybe then there wont be anymore cringy moments where some "dreamer" gets up on stage all teary eyed "senor trump broke my dreams! i'm no longer a dreamer! i cant dream anymore!"
i mean how many times have you gone up to someone and been hell yeah man i'm a DREAMER ahhh i dream so much! man... so many dreams, you dont even know.
dreamers when refering to children doesnt sound so bad; "The Dream Act" was a good name but i'm not some starry eyed kid anymore.
i am an adult who was brought to the US at a young age by my parrents and the broken immigration system is keeping me from reaching my goals.
dreams turn into goals as we age, maybe we should be called the GOALERS.
but i dont know i think we should be referred to as adults who are VICTIMS of the immigration system, actual human ADULTS who are stuck in limbo unable to progress with their lives because of the current US immigration system, because of racists in the USA who hold power.
can you imagine some US citizen being stuck in some other country and not being able to do anything about their future? do people realize how fucked up our situation really is? can they imagine themselves in our position?
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I think you are taking the term DREAMers too literally. DREAMers came from DREAM Act - as in the beneficiaries of the DREAM Act. Not that we spend our lives dreaming. Also the term began when a lot of us were younger - those in our early to mid thirties were in our early to mid-20s when we began using that term. I've always liked it, but I do understand the point you are making.