A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights-the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society’s attitudes toward one of the most contentious political issues roiling America today: immigration.

These are called the DREAMers: teenagers who have been brought, or sent, to the United States as children and who have lived for a long time in America without legal status. Developing up, about The Producing of a Dream: What sort of group of youthful undocumented immigrants helped change what this means to be American they often times worked hard in school, planned for college, only to learn they were, in the eyes of america government and many citizens, ‘illegal aliens.’

Determined to consider fate into their own hands, a group of these young undocumented immigrants risked their safety to ‘come out’ on the subject of their status-sparking a transformative movement, engineering a seismic shift in public areas opinion in immigration, and uplifting additional social movements in the united states. Their quest for permanent legal protection beneath the so-called ‘Desire Work,’ stalled. But in 2012, the National government released a landmark, fresh immigration policy: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which includes since protected more than half a million young immigrants from deportation even while efforts to set up more expansive protections remain elusive.

The Making of a Dream begins at the turn from the millennium, using the first of some ‘Desire Act’ proposals; follows the initiatives of policy manufacturers, activists, and undocumented immigrants themselves, and concludes with the 2016 presidential election and the first a few months from the Trump presidency. The immigrants’ coming of age stories intersect using the watershed political and economic occasions of the last two decades: 9/11, the downturn, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama presidency, as well as the rebirth of the anti-immigrant right.

In telling their tale, Laura Wides-Muñoz forces us to rethink our definition of what it means to become American.