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Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'

  • Written by: Lewis Borck, Archaeologist, Leiden University

When President Barack Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program that offered undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children a path into society, for a moment the ideals of the American Dream seemed, at least for this group, real.

We call these kids (many of whom are now adults) “Dreamers,”...

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