Policy Brief: DREAM ACT

Introduction

In the modern economy structure in United States; most of the young people, immigrants or native require some post secondary education for earning enough to become bread winner of their families. Not astoundingly, Latinos are far less expected to enroll in any kind of postsecondary education than are natives or other immigrant groups. It has been noticed that the policies which generally raise the enrolment of postsecondary and rate of completion cannot only aid Latinos but whole immigrants gain their financial stability (Gándara & Contreras, 2010). This change can happen by encouraging the economy to serve competent workforce for the employers of America. It is great to know that immigrants and also their children can have a postsecondary education, which would help their families, their own selves and the economy of America. The central aim of the immigrant postsecondary education was to focus over the undocumented migrant youth, who were brought to the U.S in infant age by their parents. These young adults under the current law are subject to deportation, which could not gain designed benefits to defray college costs for students from needy families. However, various have shined in high school and are eligible for college and university (Gándara & Contreras, 2010). Additionally, if families of migrants were familiar that their kids might attend college and could get citizenship, then their children might toil harder in school life to get the plan for college and their parents and might give more importance to their school work.

Discussion

In the year of 2001, The DREAM Act was introduced in congress. It can provide a chance to certain undocumented learners for attending college and becoming the citizens, by going after the process of two steps. The first step is giving a conditional legal status to the undocumented youth which allows them to labor or attend school without any fear of banishment. There are certain requirements to qualify, such as students must enroll in a college or in a trade school for two or four years, must possess a General Educational Development diploma or high school diploma. People have been in the USA for at least five years constantly, must possess good ethical character and few other requirements. In the second step, for applying to promote their status to legal permanent resident (LPR), youth must have up to six years, by which they can apply for citizenship. In the duration of the second step, youth will be likely qualified for central student loans and credits, and few other advantages however, not Pell grants that is the main source of central grant funds low-income college students, or welfare advantages (Martin & Midgley, 2006).

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), revenues and expenditure would be increased by the dream act however in net; it would decrease the deficit to $1.4 billion more than the first ten years comparative to recent law mainly because further authorized workers would give individual income taxes and social insurance taxes (Haskins & Tienda, 2011). Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ...