DREAM Act Savings? They're as Elusive as Illegal Aliens

The Congressional Budget Office's claim that the DREAM Act will save taxpayers $2.2 billion over 10 years doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

Though President Barack Obama touted the projection as a selling point for the student amnesty program, the so-called savings don't amount to even one-one hundredth of just one year of federal spending.

Plus, most of the costs will be borne by local and state governments as they are the ones paying for the tuition subsidies of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

"It doesn't get you to break even," says Steve Camarota, a policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., which predicts that Florida taxpayers would be on the hook for $472 million annually in additional tuition subsidy costs under DREAM.

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