The current U.S. deficit is $13,840,173,213,129 [1]. Per a new Congressional Budget Office estimate, the anti-American DREAM Act would reduce that by around $140,000,000 per year over the next ten years. Over that ten years, per the CBO, the DREAM Act would reduce the deficit by 0.01% from its current value, a miniscule amount.

You can download the estimate from here, and note that they assume that those who'd be covered would be generating tax revenues, despite the fact that DREAM Act students would be entering a labor supply in which five workers are chasing after every job. They also assume that only a small percentage of those covered by the DREAM Act would seek educational assistance, which would seem to be a bit of a leap.

And, of course, they aren't factoring in the fact that many illegal aliens would displace American citizens from college educations, something that has a huge financial and social cost. They aren't factoring in the fact that the DREAM Act would lessen the value of citizenship (by such displacement and perhaps by giving in-state illegal aliens a better tuition rate than out-of-state citizens); they aren't factoring in the fact that the DREAM Act would give even more power to the far-left and to foreign governments inside the U.S.; they aren't factoring in the fact that after six to ten years (depending on the DREAM Act version) those covered could begin sponsoring others and that would lead to increased costs.

In fact, the CBO isn't factoring in any of the secondary costs and any of the social costs. And, the greatest financial gain they can come up with is just reducing the deficit by 0.01% from its current value, spread over ten years.

Would you devalue U.S. citizenship and harm your fellow citizens in order to reduce the deficit by just 0.01% spread over ten years?

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[1] Per brillig.com/debt_clock