Well, Sh*t And Horseshoes: Illegal Aliens Face Threat Of No College
By Mary Beth Marklein - (USA TODAY)
Some states are making it harder for illegal immigrants to attend college by denying in-state tuition benefits or banning undocumented students.
In the past two years, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma have refused in-state tuition benefits to students who entered the USA illegally with their parents but grew up and went to school in the state. That represents a reversal from earlier this decade, when 10 states passed laws allowing in-state rates for such students.
This summer, South Carolina became the first state to bar undocumented students from all public colleges and universities.
North Carolina’s community colleges in May ordered its 58 campuses to stop enrolling undocumented students after the state attorney general said admitting them may violate federal law.
“The new trend is to kick illegal aliens out of college altogether,” says William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, which opposes taxpayer subsidies for undocumented immigrants.
Georgia, which barred undocumented students from in-state tuition rates in 2006, enacted laws in May preventing them from receiving state scholarships and certain student loans.
This fall, the University of Arkansas will require students to submit Social Security numbers and proof of residency. In May, Arkansas Department of Higher Education Director Jim Purcell warned that students without documentation “will not be considered as legally enrolled students” when determining an institution’s state funding.
Opponents say students shouldn’t be penalized for their parents’ actions. Helping them is “the right thing to do even if it’s unpopular,” says North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Democrat who introduced a bill that would prevent state institutions from asking about students’ immigration status.
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well no shit!!
do i get a government check from Mexico? no i dont because im not a Mexican citizen.
these people have broken US sovereignty and they expect college education? come on. they shouldnt even be here
July 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pmThink about it. My brilliant US citizen nephew from another state has to pay more to attend college in my state than kids here in the US and state illegally. ALSO: many state colleges give SCHOLARSHIPS PAID FOR BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS to foreign kids, especially sports scholarships. I can see if a donor wants to endow a special scholarship for foreign students, but to give REGULAR sports scholarship money to FOREIGNERS???? So, my neighbor’s kid, a great tennis player, can’t get a tennis scholarship at a state university, but several kids on the tennis team are there on a full ride, from other countries.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pmHaving just put three through university, the idea of subsidizing criminals pretty much pisses me off. Citizenry should be a prerequisite for ANY publicly funded or subsidized education.
Even more when I see the dude in the pic is a Pooh fan.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pmIf they can get this going at the high school level, their wont be an immigrant left in the USA.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:03 pmSend em down the street with that g-d damned Finkelstein kid and get a g-d damned job-
son of a bitch!!
(then get yer ass outta my country)
July 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pmWell that is wonderful, but there are about 8 or states like the great state of Kansas that give illegals tuition breaks
July 8th, 2008 at 4:18 amHaha.
Theres probably some guy from Kenya whos parents sold everything they have to get him a visa to study for 2 years at an american college, when he gets it and arrives hes told:
“sorry, that guy who just hoped over the border for free has your place, theres the door”.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:09 am