Posted on 09/24/2011 4:13:56 PM PDT by montag813
While Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has engaged himself in a (futile) effort to convince the 81% of Americans who oppose in-state tuition for illegal aliens they are wrong - and heartless, Arizona is making sure no schools can offer this disgraceful subsidy.
Arizona's legislature first tried to ban in-state tuition for illegals in 2005, but then-Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed the bill. So the very next year, voters overwhelmingly (71%) approved Sen. Russell Pearce's Proposition 300 to ban the practice at state schools.
But some state community colleges, such as the Maricopa County Community College District, attempted to skirt the law by allowing illegal immigrants to continue to qualify for in-state tuition as part-time students.
So Senate President Pearce and Sen. Linda Gray asked Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne for his legal opinion on whether MCC could get away with this trick to benefit illegals - and yesterday Horne said no way. State law clearly bars community colleges from granting illegals in-state tuition under any circumstances.
Thank you Attorney General Horne for making sure that the kind of unfair subsidy and magnet for illegal aliens Rick Perry defends, will continue to have no place in Arizona.
When Arizonans say NO, we mean NO. There isn’t going to be any of this “part-time” bull****!!!!
Even with a higher degree and illegal is not supposed to be hired by an employer. Must be why e-varify is not supported. Driver’s license is a problem in most states too.
Ban chain migration and then maybe we can talk.
Illegals kids should be given a free education and I support meeting them and their parents at the school and hospital doors and giving them a one way ride to their home country to make that possible. See perry I am not heartless, free departure ride, after the finger prints and DNA tests are run. And if caught a second time they get free room and board for five years at a Russian prison of their choice.
Works for me!!
I think light green is pretty reasonable, better than neutral. They don’t do it
Anything that is subsidized will increase at the expense of those things not subsidized.
Subsidizing illegals takes away from Americana citizens.
Perry can drop out of the race now.
Even if they get the education than what ? We get another rally of we just spend thousands to educate them, let us make them citizens, to be our doctors,lawyers. It will never stop with just give us our dream act and you will never hear from us again.Now will all depart AZ go to Calif,Obatin a fake GED and get their In-State Tuition from there ?
Time to get rid of those people who tried to pull this. Gotta be somebody(s) in here:
Wikipedia sez: "The Chancellor of the Maricopa Community Colleges is the CEO of the 10-college system. The Presidents at each college and a select group of Vice Chancellors report to the Chancellor, who serves at the pleasure of the Governing Board."
Board of Governors:
President Randolph Lumm
Secretary Jerry D. Walker
Member Donald R. Campbell
Member Debra Pearson
Chancellor Rufus Glasper
I’m unclear...
Is there a problem?
IF there is a problem, perhaps my tagline?
What's funny is that an illegal in Washington State would pay out of state tuition to attend the University of Texas.
Most of these kids applying for In-state tuition have already received 12 years of free education in America’s schools. How is it heartless to refuse them in-state tuition at College? They are not Americans, Most of them do not want to be Americans, If they did they could become citizens by joining the military.
I cannot believe these people even tried this crap.
Un-freaking-believable!
TX has a law allowing it with restrictions.
I laughed when I saw that some of the most vocal opponents of Perry and Texas instate tuition law live in states that have the same law as Texas.
They know more about Texas than they do their own state law! LOL!
The spotlight has turned on Arizona’s out-of-state licenses because of an ongoing Massachusetts investigation where the licenses of 124 Somali refugees were suspended. Authorities discovered the problem when the Somalis, who had failed a written test to get a license in Massachusetts, tried to exchange their Arizona licenses for Massachusetts credentials. Massachusetts allows exchanges without a written test.
However, Arizona officials do not believe their licensing system is widely abused. ADOT issued more than 3,900 out-of-state licenses in the past fiscal year.
http://ktar.com/category/local-news-articles/20110924/Arizona’s-lax-driver~test-rules-lure-foreigners/
If it’s not one thing, it’s another
looky here
It could happen anywhere, but I’m waiting for some State legislator to make a list of college majors, compared to the number of students who get work in that field within six months after graduation.
1) The purpose of State subsidies to higher education is so that graduates will be able to get better jobs at higher pay, and help all of society with their professional careers.
2) If a major does not accomplish that basic thing, then the State should not subsidize it. If a student wishes to pay for its entire cost out of a non-performing major, of their own pocket, fine.
3) Doing this simple thing could save States each hundreds of millions of dollars each and every year. Add to that the benefit of thousands of students no longer deeply in debt, because they graduated with a non-performing major, and these cutbacks are to the strong interest of society.
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