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Pro-Con | Should Congress pass the 'Dream Act' to help children of illegal immigrants?

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Should Congress pass the 'Dream Act' to help children of illegal immigrants?

More than 65,000 undocumented students who have lived in the U.S. for five years or more will graduate from high school this spring. For their native-born classmates, graduation is a rite of passage into adulthood. For many undocumented students, it’s a dead end.
That is the urgent message in a new report contending that the initial investment in the K-12 education of these students, mandated by the Supreme Court in 1982, is lost if we continue to curb their ability to contribute to society after they graduate from high school. Estimates suggest that the Dream Act would provide 360,000 undocumented high school graduates with a legal means to work and secure additional resources for college, and could provide incentives for another 715,000 youngsters between the ages of 5 and 17 to finish high school (to fulfill the act’s eligibility requirements) and pursue post-secondary education.

The Dream Act would provide a serious shot in the arm to our struggling economy.

College Board, news release

The House and the Senate have reintroduced a sweeping illegal alien amnesty bill known as the Dream Act — for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors.

The legislation … is a broad amnesty disguised as an educational initiative that would allow millions of illegal aliens who meet a very loose definition of “studentâ€