Posted on 08/29/2006 6:56:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Students who came to the country illegally could apply for state financial aid when they attend California colleges and universities under legislation approved Tuesday by the Assembly in a party-line vote.
Supporters said immigrant children who have graduated and completed at least three years of high school in California should not be penalized for their parents' decision to bring them to the U.S. illegally.
"It is one small measure to help these kids that are working their butts off to live the American dream," said Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, D-South Gate.
The bill would build upon existing state law that allows the same group of students to qualify for in-state tuition at California public schools and community colleges based on high school attendance, rather than U.S. citizenship or state residency.
Critics said offering financial aid to illegal immigrants would short-change needy American students already competing for a small pot of money.
"We're talking about limited resources here," said Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. "There's only so much that can go around. It's a slap in the face to people who have followed the rules."
Lawmakers approved SB160 by a 43-27 vote, with no Republicans supporting it, and sent it to the Senate for final approval. Aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he had taken no position on the bill.
Lawmakers also took the following action:
SEX OFFENDERS - By a 65-0 vote, the Assembly passed legislation requiring registered sex offenders to notify their employers of their prior conviction if the job requires interaction with children. Bill author Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, said it was unacceptable that sex offenders have been employed as Santas at shopping malls, clowns at children's parties and staff members at day camps. No lawmaker spoke against the measure, but some critics have said registrants could be banished from service and retail jobs where minors work if the bill were enacted. The bill, AB2263, goes to the governor.
WIRELESS INTERNET - The Assembly also sent the governor a bill that would require manufacturers to warn computer users about how to protect their personal information and prevent others from tapping into their wireless Internet networks. Supporters said the bill would give consumers the know-how to prevent so-called "piggybacking" by supplying new computer owners with the needed software. Lawmakers approved the measure, AB2415, 55-0.
GAY RIGHTS - By a 22-15 vote, the Senate sent the governor a bill by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, that would prohibit schools from using textbooks or providing instruction that criticizes people because of their sexual orientation.
At one point the bill, SB1437, also would have required social science textbooks to discuss the historic contributions of gays. Kuehl dropped that provision in the Assembly in hopes of getting Schwarzenegger to sign the measure, but his aides have made statements indicating that he still might veto the bill.
INITIATIVES - The Senate also approved, 22-13, a bill by Sen. Debra Bowen, D-Redondo Beach, that would require initiative petitions to reveal the measure's five largest financial contributors and whether circulators were being paid to gather signatures.
The vote approved Assembly amendments and sent the measure to the governor, who vetoed a similar measure last year.
Bowen said the legislation, SB1598, would empower voters, letting them know who was bankrolling a proposed initiative before they signed a petition to put it on the ballot.
PLASTIC BAGS - Supermarkets and other large stores with at least 40,000 square feet of space would have to set up programs to recycle plastic bags under another bill approved by the Senate.
Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Sherman Oaks, said his bill would help stem a flood of plastic bags headed for landfills.
"With Californians throwing away over 600 bags a second, they are creating enough waste to circle the planet over 250 times per year," he said.
A 29-9 vote returned the bill, AB2449, to the Assembly for a vote on Senate amendments.
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Associated Press Writer Steve Lawrence contributed to this report.
Shaking my head. There is not much that can be said about this type of mentality
well lets just see what RINOld does...
Who the hell decided that the American taxpayers should foot the bill for these "kids" to have "the American dream?" When I was a kid, the people themselves worked hard to obtain the American dream. Now, these buffoons in California are passing laws to give it away to foreigners. Whaaaadda Country.
Not long until crimmigrants will be given the right to vote.
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So far the reception has been fabulous, especially with the recent added threat of a Governor falling all over himself to sign these absolute abominations, one right after the other!!!
SCOTUS
Isn't that unfairly discriminatory?
Doesn't it single my children out for excessive penalties?
FDR
What started as an audacious application of the paternal responsibilities of the American wealthy has evolved over 80 years to produced genetic mistakes like Phil Angelides.
Surely our small government, indivdiual rights, republican governor won't sign?
I don't get it. If they actually admit on a legal form that they are here illegally doesn't the state have some sort of legal obligation to not ignore the law?
FDR couldn't have happened without an engineered crisis; that couldn't have happened without the Fed; that couldn't have happened without Teddy buying a blue water navy on credit; that couldn't have happened without global interests to defend; that couldn't have happened without international investors; that couldn't have happened without robber barons; that couldn't have happened without European investment after the Civil War; that couldn't have happened without the 14th Amendment; that couldn't have happened without the Civil War debt; that couldn't have happened without a war engineered by American Masons and European banks; that couldn't have happened without disproportionate taxation; that couldn't have happened without a need for revenue to pay off the War of 1812...
There are days I just want to SCREAM! And then leave California...
"Isn't that unfairly discriminatory?
Doesn't it single my children out for excessive penalties?"
Seems like I heard there was a lawsuit on this very issue, but I don't know what's happened to it. It makes no sense at all to give *illegal* aliens free aid and tuition breaks, while charging the full rate to *legal* citizens of other states.
ROFL! Good one, SW!
How does this work exactly? Is it anything like car insurance?
Should we just skip to the part when the adjustor says "It's totaled"?
Seems to me that if California law supports the idea of paying the tuition of illegal aliens, it ought to pay the tuition of citizens ANYWHERE!!
No sense wasting our tax dollars on the kids if we can get somebody else to do it.
Just make that tuition check out to "Muawiyah" in Virginia!!
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