Book review: Meet the dreamers who walked 1,500 miles to stay in America

'The Making of a Dream' is a sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement in which the four walkers took part

On January 1, 2010, four student activists began a 1,500-mile walk from Miami to Washington, DC They wore white Nikes and, later, white T-shirts that said “Undocumented.” They chose the start of a new decade for their walk because it seemed auspicious. Exhausted by years of lobbying for immigration reform that never came to pass and a Dream Act that never materialised, the friends wanted to stage a protest. When they got to Washington, they hoped to persuade President Obama to address their predicament, one shared by hundreds of thousands of young people.

On January 1, 2010, four student activists began