The students are called DREAMers after the proposed federal DREAM Act.

Red Alert Politics reports.

College actively recruiting undocumented students

Those young immigrants who are undocumented and living here illegally may be seeing a rise in their opportunities, rather than fears of uncertain fates. ABC News recently profiled Western New Mexico University, a small college which has targeted undocumented students such as Grecia Rivas.

As ABC notes about DREAMers:

The students are called DREAMers after the proposed federal DREAM Act — a law that would give the immigrant students a pathway to citizenship through college enrollment or military service. The proposal has languished in Congress for years.

Another point is that other schools targeting such students are doing so “amid nationally declining enrollments,” and that they “are only encouraging the immigrant students… to apply despite the uncertainty of their careers after they graduate.”