The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

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“Passage of the DREAM act would add $329 billion to the U.S economy and create 1.4 million new jobs by 2030.”(Guzman and Jara) Young immigrant students that are brought here by their parents are brought here for many reasons, but the most important reason they are here is for a better life through education. Everyone deserves the chance to pursue their goal that they have in life. The DREAM act will not only benefit the families of these you immigrant students, but it will also benefit the rest of their lives. Young immigrant students thrive with that passion that they have to learn and get a better education. In Thomas Freidman book The World is Flat he elaborates and explains the gap at the bottom, lack of ambition and the education gap at the bottom. And also how our education system if not effective, but by having the DREAM act these young immigrant students will show their ambition on wanting to learn how to learn, get a better education, and be someone in life.
The DREAM act will not hurt globalization in the contrary the DREAM act will make it a better place. Immigration will always be around no matter what. Every school year an immigrant student will graduate from high school and after they are done from getting their high school diploma they will want to keep getting a higher education. The next step for them will be going to college or to a university. The parents to these students well almost all of the parents of the students I should say encourage their kids to go to college to obtain a better education and have a better chance of obtaining a better job than their parents. Some will say that now a days it’s harder than ever to get a job, because the world keeps getting flatter and flatter as the years go by. So the ...

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...of these young immigrant students come from a family that has a low income and by the DREAM act getting passed they won’t have to worry about paying out of pocket because they don’t have the money to pay it. They already got their high school diploma I think that’s good enough to show that they are capable of getting a degree in whatever they want to study or whatever field they want to go in. The DREAM act will benefit all of us in the United States by letting us compete and stay on top of everyone as the world gets flat.

Works Cited

Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Print
Guzman, Juan C., and Raul C. Jara. "The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act." Name. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2014.
"The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act." Name. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb.

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