Quartz Media features Peri's comments on Dreamers' contributions to the economy in an article titled "True conservatives would let Dreamers stay in the US—to avoid wasting billions of taxpayer dollars."
US president Donald Trump now seems to be reviving a policy that allows some 800,000 immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children—known as “Dreamers”—to stay and work in the US. Giovanni Peri says that “They have skills and abilities that would be highly productive.”