By Valentina Toro
Across Connecticut, undocumented students confronting increased immigration enforcement are relying on a years-old network of student groups, faculty advocates and statewide organizers originally built during earlier immigration policy battles, particularly those around the failed DREAM Act, and the innovation of DACA status.
Those groups, including the statewide Connecticut Students for a Dream organization, are now adapting to a new wave of fear surrounding ICE activity in communities near several universities.
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