Young undocumented immigrants are to rally from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday on Independence Mall calling for passage of the DREAM Act, which would allow illegal immigrants, who were brought to the U.S. as children and who fulfill requirements of attending college or serving in the military, the opportunity to gain legal status.
The act was blocked by Republicans in the Senate last year. Advocates, organized by DreamActivist Pennsylvania, will march from the mall, near 5th and Market streets, to the U.S. Custom House, on Chestnut Street near 2nd, where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Investigations is housed.
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