[In-state tuition for illegals ought to cause immediate lawsuit for out-of-state legal kids to get the same tuition]
They do if they have lived in the state for a year. The illegal residency requirement is 3 years, graduate from a TX high school, and be working toward US citizenship. I think this is why the law stand ups to legal challenges under federal law. No benefit is offered to the illegals that is not offered to all US citizens.
We have in-state tution for illegals in KS. I did not support the law.
how do illegal aliens work towards US citizenship? it’s simply not possible, if you are working towards citizenship that implies you are following the law and therefore you are a legal alien. I think perry is obfuscating like all rino/dems do
If you don't mind, and if you know, could you summarize what "working toward US citizenship" consists of?
Somehow the morons in government cannot figure out that subsidizing a behavior results in more of that behavior.
I did and do not support the KS version of this excrement law, either.
Sometimes I wonder if Shakespeare didn’t have a valid point. (First... the lawyers.)
Couple of issues. There is nothing in the law requiring people to "be working toward US citizenship." The law states the following:
(4) provides to the institution an affidavit stating that the individual will file an application to become a permanent resident at the earliest opportunity the individual is eligible to do so.
This is a sham that is not enforceable. The illegal alien may never become eligible. In the meantime they get in-state tuition and take the place of an American citizen/legal Texas resident who is qualified to attend the school, which is also subsidized by the taxpayer.
Re standing up under legal challenge, please take a look at an ongoing case filed in April 2010, Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas v. State of Texas (University of Houston). The lawsuit claims the state law violated the federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which “prohibits states from providing a postsecondary education benefit to an alien not lawfully present in the United States on the basis of residence unless any U.S. citizen or national is eligible for the same benefit.”
Residency....in the legal sense, patently implies legal residency. If they are illegal, they are not and cannot be ‘residents’....they are invaders, willing or not.