100,000—-number of immigrant parents of U.S. citizen children who have been deported from the United States in the last ten years. (Facing our Future: Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Enforcement, Urban Institute. January 2010.)

5.5 million—estimated number of children with undocumented parents in the United States (Ibid)

75—estimated percentage of those children who were born in the United States (Ibid)

11.9 million—-number of undocumented immigrants in United States in 2008 (Raising the Floor for American Workers : The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Center for American Progress and Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Council)

1.5 trillion—minimum amount in dollars of additional growth in national GDP from comprehensive immigration reform that provided path to eventual citizenship for undocumented workers (Ibid)

2.6 trillion—minimum amount in dollars in lost GDP over ten years if federal government implemented deportation only scenario, not including the actual costs of deportation or job loss (Ibid)

80 billion—amount in dollars that comprehensive immigration reform would add to the U.S. economy each year according to conservative Cato Institute. (Restriction or Legalization?: Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform, Cato Institute, August 2009.)

641,130—number of foreign-born people in North Carolina in 2008 (U.S. Census Bureau)

350,000—number of undocumented residents in North Carolina in 2008 (Pew Hispanic Center)

75—estimated percentage of undocumented immigrants in United States who pay income and payroll taxes (Immigrants in North Carolina: A Fact Sheet, UNC School of Government.)

7 billion—amount in dollars unauthorized immigrants contributed in 2002 taxes to Social Security and Medicare from which they cannot receive benefits. (Center for Immigration Studies)

7,024—amount in dollars of out-of-state tuition at North Carolina community colleges (Report to N.C. Board of Community Colleges,  JBL Associates of Maryland, April 2009.)

5,375—amount in dollars of cost to educate a student at a North Carolina community college (Ibid)

111—number of undocumented students in admitted to North Carolina community colleges in 2007-2008 (N.C. Community College System)

200,000—number of students who applied to North Carolina community colleges in 2007-2008. (Ibid)

0—number of North Carolina students who will be displaced by undocumented students who are allowed in enroll under policy approved by State Board of Community Colleges in September 2009.