Not targeted but not safe, young illegal immigrants push for a new policy

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Young activists had pinned their hopes on the Dream Act. When it was put to bed, they started a new strategy: 'Coming out' as illegal immigrants and protesting their uncertain fates in this country.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-illegal-immigrants-20110410,0,7571188.story

Seven college-age Latinos gathered in downtown Atlanta and passed around a microphone, announcing to the world that they were coming out of the shadows as illegal immigrants.

Then, in an act of civil disobedience, they sat down in the middle of a busy street and announced it again to a large and chanting crowd. When they were hauled off to jail, they even declared their status to a pair of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — who proceeded to do nothing.

Wednesday, after a night in jail, the seven were free again, clutching misdemeanor tickets issued by the city for blocking traffic.

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The group's Atlanta protest was the first in which participants were arrested since the bill's defeat in December. Abdollahi said it would not be the last.

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1. Let me go out an a limb here and suggest

assume the risks of their status. That's the way the game is played