Posted on 01/12/2006 7:08:53 PM PST by djjava
The Boston Globe calls them "undocumented immigrants;" I call them what that are, and that is "illegal aliens." No matter what you call them, they still will not get in-state tuition in Massachusetts, now that House members voted 96-to-57 to defeat this most preposterous bill that had no business on Beacon Hill.
Massachusetts House members last night decisively defeated a controversial bill to extend in-state tuition rates at public colleges to undocumented immigrants, effectively killing the measure for this year.The 96-to-57 tally surprised advocates of the bill, who believed they had enough votes to win approval in the House and at one point were predicting they may have enough support to override a certain veto from Governor Mitt Romney.
Despite some pathetic sob stories from House Democrats, common sense prevailed. The Republicans could not have done this alone; support from more than a handful of Democrats was required to defeat this bill.
Representative Marie Parente, a Milford Democrat, said immigrants who are here illegally should not be given advantages over residents who struggle as she did when she was a child.Parente was a foster child and attended college later in life because she could not afford to go right out of high school.
"You're going to educate people to take our own technical jobs, the ones our students need?" Parente said.
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In Massachusetts???? Wow! I don't believe it!
Bout damn time!
Now if only other states will follow with similar measures, like no automatic citizenship to children born of illegal alien mothers!
This should show the national Republican Party about the the unpopularity of the illegals when this couldn't pass in a socialist state. There was a massive reaction to this bill, much of it as a result of conservative talk show hosts who made all of this very well known.
Ya mean that Teddy's state is racist?
Common sense is beginning to make progress on this issue.
Why even offer in state tuition to LEGAL aliens?
How insensitive!
Washington was giving in-state tuition to illegals who graduated from local high schools and then University of WA got hit with a law suit for not giving in state tuition to all foreign students. The ruling was that if they gave in state tuition to illegals, they had to give it to legal aliens as well.
ping
Howie Carr beat this issue senseless over the past few months...looks like his listeners were paying attention.
Watch the Mass. courts to order the legislature to adopt this.
Har!! How far off can a "prediction" be?
Of course, the reason that the bill's advocates thought they could win was because the Boston Globe, thinking that its own power and influence was enough to sway the legislature (like it was for decades), led the advocates to believe that the bill had overwhelming support.
Once again, the joke is on the scumbags.
It's all over for the Democrat Party's monopoly on the selection, spin, and dissemination of the news via city newspapers and "the big three" networks, but these scumbags who are entrenched in their liberal newsrooms just keep scrunching their eyes shut and shaking their heads while chanting, "Nananananananana...." hoping that when they stop it won't be true. "Things will once again be as they were", the scumbags dream.
No. They won't.
This isn't scrappleface or something, is it???????
the bill was to allow for illegal aliens to get in-state tuition, so if it passed, it would have given them cheaper tuition than some 5th generation american from Rhode Island.
thus, the veto by Romney would have been welcome.
Do my eyes deceive me?
The bill was defeated in the MA House, so there's nothing for Romney to sign OR veto.
The advocates of the bill were assuming that the bill would pass the House. Of course Romney would have vetoed the bill had it passed. The advocates also assumed that they would be able to override Romney's veto. It's moot!
There was a debate on the radio between Lieutenant Gov Kerry Healey (also a Republican), and the MA Attorney General who will be running for Gov and who supports the bill - Tom Reilly. Healey cleaned his clock!
To give you an idea of what we are up against here in Mass. of the 160 House members only about 20 are Republicans. -Tom
Oh.
I misread it.
57 of our State Reps voted for that measure to pass.
RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley says a nine-year-old federal law prevents North Carolina from giving lower, in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges and universities to illegal immigrants, as a bill in the General Assembly proposes.
Read the latest headlines about illegal immigration.
"The bill is in violation of federal law," Easley said Wednesday in Charlotte. "Federal law prohibits states from giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants unless they also give it to (others)."
Easley, referring to research compiled by General Assembly analysts, said a 1996 federal law requires that if a state gives a benefit such as in-state tuition to illegal immigrants based on their residency in the state, it must do the same for citizens of any other state who now pay out-of-state tuition.
"Every U.S. citizen has to get in-state tuition," said Gerry Cohen, director of the bill drafting division of the General Assembly, who researched the issue.
Such a move is impossible, since it would deliver a devastating financial blow to the university system.
But, what IF the ILLEGALS are also HOMOS?
Then what are those goof-balls going to do?
Amazing. Now if that wuss Rick Perry would just follow suit.
Huh??????????????? Well, maybe they are wising up. However....
Even though we ended up liking this decision, our Leaders Legislators don't care what we think.
Very true : )
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