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2725 Redefining AmericaExtending Beyond the Text You may recognize Maggie Meiners%u2019s staged photograph %u201cDream Act%u201d to be a take on Norman Rockwell%u2019s famous illustration entitled %u201cThe Problem We All Live With,%u201d which shows six-yearold Ruby Bridges being escorted to her newly desegregated school by federal marshals (1960). Meiners%u2019s 2015 photo shows a child of undocumented immigrants being given temporary protection under the 2012 DACA %u2014 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals %u2014 program. %u00a9Maggie Meiners Norman Rockwell (1894%u20131978), The Problem We All Live With, 1963. Oil on canvas, 36%u2033 x 58%u2033. Story illustration for Look, January 14, 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. Artwork Approved by the Norman Rockwell Family Agency. 1. How does Meiners%u2019s photograph comment on current immigration laws? 2. What details in Meiners%u2019s art echo both Rockwell%u2019s painting and the details in Villavicencio%u2019s %u201cWaking Up from the American Dream%u201d? Do any of them tell a different story? Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.