Young illegal immigrants fly kites and dream of freedom

DREAM activists who have immigrated from all countries are using kites in an art project to demonstrate for the DREAM Act.    - - Donna Poisl

By Tara Bahrampour

Marybeth Onyeukwu was nervous.
“Okay!” she said, standing in the frigid air in front of the Washington Monument, holding a spool of string. “So when I feel it, I let go?”

The wind tugged at the string, and, at just the right moment, Onyeukwu, 26, of Temple Hills, started to jog backward. A large white diamond emblazoned with her image lifted jerkily into the air. She giggled excitedly and kept running, as her friends cheered.

Onyeukwu, who was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States when she was 2, is part of a wave of Dream activitsts — young undocumented immigrants who have recently been stepping forward and identifying themselves in a push for more rights.
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