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For undocumented youth, the chance to receive legal status would be a life changer. Professor Amy Hsin shows how legalization could encourage young immigrants to get a college degree and even reduce the national deficit, all without threatening the wages of U.S. born workers. For More on this Topic: Read Hsin’s opinion piece in The Hill, How the DREAM Act Can Actually Lower the Deficit Check out an Econofact memo on her research, The Economic Gains from Legalizing DREAMers Further Reading: How Restrictive Immigration Measures Undermine the Mental Health of Latino Migrants, Whitney L. Duncan, University of Northern Colorado Educational Aspirations and Realities for the Children of Immigrants in France and the United States, Amy Lutz, Syracuse University, Yaël Brinbaum, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers