Once Upon A Dreamer

摘要

Aweek after taking shots at President Thump's immigration policies on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show last January, Grammy-nominated rapper She'yaa "21 Savage" Bin Abraham-Joseph was detained for ten days by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Born in the U.K., Abraham-Joseph moved to Atlanta at age 7 with his family and had overstayed his original visa by many years. "He's a gangster," the 27-year-old performer said of the president in an October interview with Forbes. "He don't give a damn." 21 Savage, a member of the 2019 Forbes Under 30, is a "Dreamer"-one of an estimated 3.6 million people living in the U.S. after having arrived undocumented as a youth. Among them are nearly 800,000 who, by meeting any of a number of criteria (military service, a high-school diploma, no criminal record and more), were approved for President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA)-an initiative that Trump, who recently called some Dreamers "no longer very young" and "very tough, hardened criminals," wants to shut down. The Supreme Court will likely decide their fate next year.