“Opposition to allowing DACA students in-state tuition tends to come in the form of a few arguments: doing so is a burden on taxpayers, illegal and the undocumented will have problems finding jobs if their status hasn’t changed by graduation are a few. However, according to the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy (ITEP), Georgia’s undocumented immigrants paid 351.8 million dollars in state and local taxes in 2012.”
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