Posted on 09/25/2014 3:45:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Fall classes began at many of Washington's public universities Wednesday, beginning the first term undocumented immigrant students can receive state-backed financial aid under a new state law.
But while more than 2,000 students applied to receive state need grants under provisions of the newly-enacted Washington "Dream Act," state higher education officials say it's possible as many as 700 of these undocumented students won't receive an aid award at all — even if they're eligible.
It's not just undocumented students who will miss out. Though state expenditures on the program have ballooned as tuition costs get higher, there isn't enough funding for the state need grant program to offer aid to every eligible Washington student.
The Dream Act, which passed both chambers of the legislature with wide and bipartisan majorities last session, makes students eligible for state need grants if they graduated from Washington high schools and have lived in the state continuously for three years.
Undocumented students must also qualify for "deferred action for childhood arrivals," a federal government designation for migrants who came to the U.S. as children, in order to receive state need grants.
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The urge to self-destruction runs strong in the USA these days.
Strangely, the only justification I can think of for giving in-state tuition to illegals is that they are more citizens of the state than out-of-state US legal citizens. But, if that’s the case, let’s have less federal control, less federal contribution, and more home rule.
Sure, there is. Just keep raising taxes on the US citizens.
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