Undocumented Education

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One significant factor on entitling children of an undocumented status to an education is the longstanding economic benefits it can bring to a country. It has widely been argued in the U.S.A that parents of undocumented status don't pay their fair share of taxes and therefore their children shouldn't be entitled to education in the country but it should be noted that this is quite the opposite. It was reported by the Social Security Administration that around 340 million unclaimed tax forms were recorded and the reason they go unrecorded is because employers fill forms on behalf of undocumented workers which results in undocumented individuals paying billions in taxes for retirement benefits and end up receiving nothing out of it. Stephen Goss

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