Posted on 10/19/2015 5:36:18 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Somehow, we’ve skipped right past wondering whether illegal immigrants have any business going to publicly-funded colleges and right into the fairness of their tuition rates.
At least, that’s the word from the ACLU, which is representing three illegal immigrants in three separate Missouri lawsuits. The suits target the University of Missouri, St. Louis Community College, and Metropolitan Community College, arguing that illegals deserve the in-state tuition rate.
“It is shameful to treat DACA students like outcasts, when they have lived, worked and gone to schools in this country since they were children,” said the legal director of ACLU Missouri. Shameful? Okay, so point
A: These immigrants or their families broke federal law.
B: They should not be in our country.
C: They should not be receiving an education funded by the taxpayers. So how is it that it’s shameful to at least expect them to pay a rate commensurate with the tuition charged to international students?
This is like a guy who gets a stay of execution complaining about the long walk back to his cell. According to the ACLU, there’s no legal standing behind Governor Jay Nixon’s preamble to this year’s education appropriations bill. In that preamble, it is stated that “no funds shall be expended at public institutions of higher education that offer a tuition rate to any student with an unlawful immigration status in the United States that is less than the tuition rate charged to international students, and further provided that no scholarship funds shall be expended on behalf of students with an unlawful immigration status in the United States.”
Jeffrey A. Mittman, the ACLU’s executive director, said, “To punish students who had no say in how they arrived in this country is not only mean-spirited, it is against the law.”
Mean-spirited? Against the law? Where do these idiots come from? It’s mean-spirited and against the law to force American citizens to subsidize the education of foreigners. With the ACLU’s track record of success, this is probably going to be another slam dunk for the pro-immigration left. Somehow, this group and others like it are able to consistently persuade judges that non-citizens have the same rights and protections as citizens in the United States. Even those non-citizens who should have been deported a long time ago.
Want to talk about law? Where is the congressional law that gave these illegals amnesty? Oh, right, President Obama just decided to hand it to them and the rest of the government stood by and whistled. The dominoes are falling fast. We’re quickly approaching a world where illegals have the right to drive, the right to work, the right to a low-cost education, and, soon enough, the right to vote.
Border enforcement isn’t enough when you provide these kinds of incentives. Illegals were more than happy to risk life and limb just to work in the orange groves; there’s no wall on the planet that can stop them if they magically become U.S. citizens once they touch American soil.
Get off your well-fed asses Congress and do something patriotic: impeach the foreign aid student occupying the White Hut.
this is lawyer well fare for both plaintiff and defense lawyers.
Only in America……….
To quote Mark Steyn “if you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country”
I was born in the U.S., and went to school at Mizzou (Columbia) for one year, paying out of state rates. Where’s my rebate?
Only in America....oh really? REALLY???? Like this isn’t happening all over Europe?!!
It is not fair for an illegal to get lower tuition than a U.S. citizen. That is exactly what happens when an illegal in one state gets in state tuition but a citizen from the neighboring state has to be the higher price.
Squatters’ rights are better than citizens’ rights now. A student from LA or OK has to pay out-of-state rates to attend a state college in TX, but illegal aliens pay in-state tuition, thanks to Rick Perry and the ignorant TX legislature. the first state a decade ago to approve this outrage.
Then, I had an epiphany.
If *I* committed a felony, would the judge say, "He's a father, his kids would be adversely affected by any punishment, so we'll just skip that particular phase of the trial...." ?
Nope. "Lock him up and toss the key. Too bad, so sad, kids."
Once I figured that out, I've no more sympathy.
I haven’t been to Europe in the last 15 or 20 years….I also haven’t seen of heard of it happening there—but you seem to know more about it that I do.
If Lizzy (Chief Lieawatha) Warren and her ilk weren't getting 300 large for 1 class perhaps the price would be lower.
But that would require free-market ideas...and in college today...why you might as well flash a cross at them.
Sad really.
I lived in Ohio
As a child I had no say in this as my parents took me there
I demand in state tuition in California! Or Michigan!
I have lived and worked in this country all of my life!
( follow the logic)
Hang on illegals— communist Boinie or Socialist Hellary will give you free tuition if you vote for them with your illegal but legally counted votes.
Riddle me this, Batman: How and why does an illegal have standing in court for such a lawsuit, huh?
Only in ACLU’s Amerika!
That is silly. All they have to do is tell Admissions that they are Invading Barbarians and they will qualify for all sorts of financial aid.
Lets start with a conversation on standing. What standing does an illegal have to bring a tort or civil suit against a college to force the college to treat them better than a US Citizen?
I am of the opinion, none.
The same aholes that are here illegally because they were afraid to challenge their own governments. Chickenhearts.
Well since you said “only in America” I figured that you probably weren’t too knowledgeable about what’s happening in the world.
These leftist indoctrination centers of lower learning (colleges) should just waive tuitions for all illegals. They teach the joys of leftist societies so why not practice what they preach and give them free education? Because they want the taxpayers to fund their communisms and by legalized enforcements of law.
Call them ‘tyrants’ the whole cabal of leftist hypocrites’. They won’t lose their evil dollars but the citizens are fair game.
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