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  | “An estimated 60,000 undocumented students graduate from our nation's high schools each year, according to the Urban Institute.”
”According to the National Center for Education Statistics, foreign-born Latino dropouts account for 26 percent of all dropouts in the U.S.”
“According to a Rand Corporation report, if we increased college completion rates of today's Hispanic 18-year-olds by as little as 3 percent, we would increase projected social insurance payments, such as Medicare contributions, by $600 million.”
Source: Children of Immigrants Dare to Dream, National Council of La Raza
http://lideres.nclr.org/articles/detail/556.html
“After 5 years of temporary legal resident status, beneficiaries of the DREAM act would become eligible to receive public assistance in the form of Food Stamps and Medicaid. The costs of these programs would be zero dollars in the first four years and is estimated at $90 million in the next six years. These estimates, however, do not account for the fact that higher education attainment is likely to decrease the need for public assistance by the beneficiaries (Hatch, 2004).
Congressional arguments in support of the act stated that in 1998 immigrants (legal and illegal) paid $133 billion in taxes, and also cited figures estimating that current immigration levels would result in a net benefit of $500 billion into the Social Security system in the next 20 years. Even though the DREAM act would allow more people to be eligible for federal assistance programs, the additional federal income collected through new taxes would be far greater than the money spent on federal assistance to the population. The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) estimates that increased tax revenue from the affected population would completely pay back the costs incurred through enactment of the bill in 3-4 years; thereby providing a profit in every subsequent year (NILCa, 2003).”
Source: The DREAM Act: Opportunities and possibilities for immigrant youth
Editors: Theresa Logan and Jeana Hooker. UNST 421: Summer Upward Bound Summer Program 2004
http://www.ubets.pdx.edu/NASP/NASP_PDFs/DREAM.pdf
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