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Between an ongoing concern to tighten the budget and a $12,000 spending fiasco involving Sunnyside High School's superintendent, an unsuspected source of hope emerged at Sunnyside Unified School District's Governing Board meeting Jan. 26.

While the primary concern for many in attendance was answers from the board regarding Superintendent Manuel L. Isquierdo's personal use of a district credit card, a band of students and faculty from STAR Academic Center gathered for a different cause.

A recent study found that immigration reform is capable of reviving the nation's struggling economy.

With a comprehensive reform model, the report shows that alternative immigration policies could "yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years."

By legalizing unauthorized workers and basing immigration limits on the U.S. labor demand, comprehensive reform would "raise the 'wage floor' for the entire U.S. economy - to the benefit of both immigrant and native-born workers," according to "Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform," conducted by UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda and released through the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center.