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Originally Posted by Invictus
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1) Passing the DREAM Act will lower crime rates.
Crime is inextricably linked with poverty, and lack of educational and economic opportunities. Passing the DREAM Act will keep DREAM Act beneficiaries off the streets and out of jail by giving them an opportunity to get training and jobs. Crime rates will go down as a result of the DREAM Act.
(Insert study that showed immigrants have lower incarceration rates)
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c) DREAM Act beneficiaries who graduate will be more likely to get jobs and stay off of taxpayer-funded assistance.
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[What do you think?]
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I think its extremely rare for us to get any kind of taxpayer funded assistance. other the kinder - 12th education if you consider federal tax payer assistance, otherwise, anything else including the assistance to college students in california or the healthcare system in miami is covered by state or even just county tax payers after they voted and approved those expenditures.
Maybe demonstrate that immigrants are likely to be deported if they commit any offense that brings a prison sentence, thus demonstrating that the ones that have been here for a while, like say 5 years, may not constitute a huge burden to the system.