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"Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, has long been advocating for immigration reform and the passage of the DREAM Act, which would give undocumented young people a path to American citizenship. Now the wealthiest woman in Silicon Valley has partnered with award-winning documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim to launch The Dream Is Now, a video-based web project to bring attention to the stories of undocumented youth.\nThe Dream Is Now invites undocumented young people to record and post video messages about the ways their situation might change if the DREAM Act were passed. Others who might support the bill, including educators and lawmakers, are also welcome to post video messages of support on the site.\nGuggenheim will eventually collect footage from the site and combine it into a documentary on the DREAM Act.\n\"There needed to be a demystification \u2014 to put a face to these people, to hear the individual stories,\" Powell Jobs told Yahoo News.\nThe most prominently featured video at launch time includes footage of undocumented youths announcing their immigration status to the world. Their last names have been withheld likely to protect their privacy.\n\"Today, I am going to take a really big step in my life and I'm going to step out of the shadows and into the public sphere to be part of a larger movement, to be part of a greater cause,\" says Osmar, an undocumented young man from San Diego, Calif.\n\"I have a secret that I'm very hesitant to share,\" says Cendy, from Aurora, Colo.\nMore personal videos can be viewed below the home page's main player. The site also includes a petition which supporters of the DREAM Act can sign. Supporters are also asked to tweet or post to Instagram about the campaign using the hashtag #TheDreamIsNow.\nVisit The Dream Is Now.\nSEE ALSO: New Bill Welcomes High-Tech Entrepreneurs to the U.S.\n\nThe DREAM Act, first introduced in 2001, would legalize undocumented residents who arrived in the U.S. as minors and have lived in the country for at least five years. Applicants who keep a clean criminal record and attend college or serve in the military would be granted a path to American citizenship.\nThe DREAM Act has bipartisan support but has never passed, coming closest to doing so in December of 2010. The timing for The Dream Is Now is no accident: President Barack Obama has said that immigration reform will be among his top priorities during his second term, which began Sunday.\nPhoto via Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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