My mom's a US Citizen and she's also paid her taxes.

You must also realize that $30-50k is an unreasonable amount of wages to garnish, especially considering that no matter how DREAMers are portrayed as being 4.0 valedictorians, the majority of us are broke and undereducated and in no position to be paying off that large of a debt.

If that $50k was given to us as a 30 year loan with a 6% APR, the monthly payment would be $300. I think many people would have a hard time paying that.