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They were criticized for being too provocative and too critical in demanding immigration reform.

When some of them arranged for youths who had been deported to try to come back across the Mexican border, setting up a showdown with the Obama administration over whether they would be allowed to return to the U.S., even the most enthusiastic immigration activists balked at their strategy.

And when these group of young activists, undocumented youths who had grown up in the United States and are known as Dreamers, locked horns with even some Democrats who were leading the push for immigration reform particularly President Barack Obama himself immigration activists grew frustrated, claiming it was wrong to direct criticism at the president, someone who sympathized with their cause.

The so-called Dreamers, however, did not back down in fact, they pushed back harder when immigration reform failed to materialize.

And so when Obama delivered his prime-time speech last Thursday, announcing that he was issuing an executive order that would suspend deportation for up to 5 million undocumented immigrants, the Dreamers felt vindicated.

It was their single biggest victory so far the largest change in immigration in many years. And with that, they recaptured the drivers seat in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform.

We got a lot of backlash for going after Obama, said Erika Andiola, one of the most prominent Dreamers pushing for immigration reform, to Fox News Latino. But he is the president of the United States, he said he supported immigrants, but Dreamers were saying he was getting them and their families deported.

At the end of the day, it was that pressure that created a moral crisis and played a part in pushing the president to issue the executive order.

- Lucy Allain, immigrant activist

Since 2009, the Dreamers have taken a fledgling campaign that was focused on getting a law that would provide young undocumented immigrants with a chance to live and work in the United States, and turned it into the engine of immigration advocacy that has broadened to include legalization for many groups of people who are here illegally.

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Dreamers pushed the boundaries on immigration reform ...

Charles Mostoller | Reuters

Undocumented immigrant Angela Navarro and her husband Ermer Fernandez (L), along with other immigrants and supporters, watch President Barack Obama announce executive action on immigration, at the West Kensington Ministry church, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 2014.

The loud, ongoing debate over immigration reform often overlooks one very important impact from letting more foreigners come to live and work in the U.S.

Many researchers believe it's good for the economy.

The U.S. economy can use all the help it can get these days. Though the American job and housing markets continue their halting recovery, the engines of growth are slowing in the rest of the world. From Europe to China to Japan, global growth has so far resisted efforts to shake off the lingering effects of a massive debt hangover that followed the credit crisis of 2008.

"A return to the 'good old days' of 2003-2007 does not appear to be in the cards," Wells Fargo Securities economists wrote last week in a note on the slowing global economy.

Read MoreUS can't dodge global slowdown forever

While U.S. growth appears to be bucking the trend of the rest of the developed world in the short run, it shares the same long-term demographic headwind now confronting policymakers in Europe and Japan. As the population ages, their younger people aren't entering the labor force fast enough to replace the older workers who are retiring. And there are fewer younger taxpayers to cover the cost of providing retirement income and health care for those older workers.

"Immigrants do not typically compete with Americans for jobs," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue wrote last week in an op-ed piece in The Washington Times. "The reality is that they create more jobs through entrepreneurship, economic activity and tax revenues."

Expanding the U.S. workforce with younger immigrants would also help offset the rising cost of Social Security payments and health care for a retiring baby boom generation.

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Economic case for immigration reform

They were criticized for being too provocative and too critical in demanding immigration reform.

When some of them arranged for youths who had been deported to try to come back across the Mexican border, setting up a showdown with the Obama administration over whether they would be allowed to return to the U.S., even the most enthusiastic immigration activists balked at their strategy.

And when these group of young activists, undocumented youths who had grown up in the United States and are known as Dreamers, locked horns with even some Democrats who were leading the push for immigration reform particularly President Barack Obama himself immigration activists grew frustrated, claiming it was wrong to direct criticism at the president, someone who sympathized with their cause.

The so-called Dreamers, however, did not back down in fact, they pushed back harder when immigration reform failed to materialize.

And so when Obama delivered his prime-time speech last Thursday, announcing that he was issuing an executive order that would suspend deportation for up to 5 million undocumented immigrants, the Dreamers felt vindicated.

It was their single biggest victory so far the largest change in immigration in many years. And with that, they recaptured the drivers seat in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform.

We got a lot of backlash for going after Obama, said Erika Andiola, one of the most prominent Dreamers pushing for immigration reform, to Fox News Latino. But he is the president of the United States, he said he supported immigrants, but Dreamers were saying he was getting them and their families deported.

At the end of the day, it was that pressure that created a moral crisis and played a part in pushing the president to issue the executive order.

- Lucy Allain, immigrant activist

Since 2009, the Dreamers have taken a fledgling campaign that was focused on getting a law that would provide young undocumented immigrants with a chance to live and work in the United States, and turned it into the engine of immigration advocacy that has broadened to include legalization for many groups of people who are here illegally.

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Dreamers pushed the boundaries on immigration reform and now seem to control the narrative

Charles Mostoller | Reuters

Undocumented immigrant Angela Navarro and her husband Ermer Fernandez (L), along with other immigrants and supporters, watch President Barack Obama announce executive action on immigration, at the West Kensington Ministry church, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 2014.

The loud, ongoing debate over immigration reform often overlooks one very important impact from letting more foreigners come to live and work in the U.S.

Many researchers believe it's good for the economy.

The U.S. economy can use all the help it can get these days. Though the American job and housing markets continue their halting recovery, the engines of growth are slowing in the rest of the world. From Europe to China to Japan, global growth has so far resisted efforts to shake off the lingering effects of a massive debt hangover that followed the credit crisis of 2008.

"A return to the 'good old days' of 2003-2007 does not appear to be in the cards," Wells Fargo Securities economists wrote last week in a note on the slowing global economy.

Read MoreUS can't dodge global slowdown forever

While U.S. growth appears to be bucking the trend of the rest of the developed world in the short run, it shares the same long-term demographic headwind now confronting policymakers in Europe and Japan. As the population ages, their younger people aren't entering the labor force fast enough to replace the older workers who are retiring. And there are fewer younger taxpayers to cover the cost of providing retirement income and health care for those older workers.

"Immigrants do not typically compete with Americans for jobs," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue wrote last week in an op-ed piece in The Washington Times. "The reality is that they create more jobs through entrepreneurship, economic activity and tax revenues."

Expanding the U.S. workforce with younger immigrants would also help offset the rising cost of Social Security payments and health care for a retiring baby boom generation.

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The economic case for immigration reform

Speaking to the nation from Las Vegas, Nevada on Nov. 21, President Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a bill to legalize all undocumented residents so that his executive order is no longer needed.

The night before, Obama unveiled an executive order that would grant temporary status to about five million eligible undocumented residents.

Im not giving up on a comprehensive overhaul with Congress," Obama said during a rally at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. If the House GOP had allowed a vote on immigration, it would be the law right now."

But while the president acted alone, GOP leaders threatened to sue over his actions, alleging he had no legal authority to do so.

Under the executive action, parents of citizens and legal permanent residents who have been living in the country for at least five years would qualify to obtain temporary status.

This deal does not apply to anyone who has come to this country recently. It does not apply to anyone who might come to America illegally in the future. It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive -- only Congress can do that. All we're saying is, we're not going to deport you," said Obama in his nationally-televised speech on Nov. 20.

Obama responded to critics by arguing his action is not "amnesty," as many have suggested.

I know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. Well, it's not. Amnesty is the immigration system we have today -- millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time," added Obama. That's the real amnesty -- leaving this broken system the way it is. Mass amnesty would be unfair. Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character."

Reactions to the announcement from local politicians, community leaders, legal experts and members of the community were mainly positive, but they also encouraged the president to offer more.

Norma Torres, who was recently elected to Congress from the Inland Empire, said on her Facebook page that Americans agree that the immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed and that the current situation has forced many to live in the shadows.

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