In this well-crafted video posted on YouTube by the educational group The Dream Is Now, Park reveals he is an undocumented immigrant who came with his family from South Korea as a child. He gives his explanation as to why the Dream Act, which would give people like him a path to legal residency, should be passed. He writes on a blackboard “$23,000,” the cost of deporting a single undocumented youth, and with 2.1 million undocumented young people, taxpayers would have to pay $48.3 billion.
The video adds that if the Dream Act passes, “Dreamers” who will have their status legalized would contribute billions more to the economy in wages, tax revenue and investments than if they were booted out of the United States completely.
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