Not only that but Gov. Warner has gotten a lot of favorable press for signing this piece of popular legislation. Maybe the Republicans could gather a clue and figure out that this issue plays well with voters.
Gov. Warner had little choice but to sign this bill seeing as the Republican dominated Virginia legislature passed it with a VETO PROOF MAJORITY.
In the recent past, Gov. Warner has vetoed some other good anti-illegal alien legislation including not giving them instate college tuition.
Which makes it all the more annoying that children of military pay out-of-state tuition rates. [The theory is that military dependents should go back to their "home" states for college - even if they they rarely, if ever, lived there.]
Yet "undocumented residents" get in-state rates. Go figure.