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A real incentive to pursue citizenship, right.
Can someone from NJ get that deal or do you have to be an illegal?
What's the advantage to be a citizen of this state? What if someone from Idaho moved there for 2weeks? Instate or out of state?
Here's a simple solution to this idocy.
US non Oregon student enrolls. Claims he's not a citizen. School asks for documentation, and obviously he's not going to have any.
About the time they loose enough money on this crap they'll change it.
Blue state alert!
Honest to Pete. You have to love our legislators. We supposedly don't have enough money in the universities now, but by George we have enough to subsidize illegal immigrants. And don't get me started on our high schools . . .
I'm a Red State kind of gal living in a Blue State kind of place. Oregon, to me, should be known as California lite.
In-state tuition rate really just means that the state tax-payers are picking up a portion of the bill. The school is still getting the same amount no matter where the student is from.
So, of course, legislators will be happy to offer tax payer money to non-citizens! ...sigh... They do for everything else.
The only reason that neocommunists would do something this stupid and irrational is the measurable effect is has in working to the eventual destruction of America! A millionith of an inch here and a millionth there. What does it benefit these people to encourage foreign illegal criminal aliens to attend their public universities? The criminal aliens will eventually be deported at take the human capital they've acquired at taxpayer expense back to the third world. What do the people from Washington say when they are relegated to a status below that of criminal?
Remember, none of these illegals can become a lawful resident of a state absent lawful entry into the United States in the first place,
This will ultimately destroy the in-state/out-of-state tuition differentials!
Any out of state student that doesn't sue for equal treatment under the law would be a fool! You can definitely see a case coming where an out of state student is bumped or rejected from a spot in the freshman class for an illegal.
What if someone sent their child to live with a relative and attend high school for the prescribed 3 years? Do they now qualify for in state tuition? Do current out of state students get in state tuition in their fourth year? Grad school?
Will their be special seats set aside for illegals, with lowered testing requirements? Will they also qualify for stipends, grants and scholarships for the in state tuition?
Why doesn't Oregon simply outsource their colleges to Mexico, Canada, or wherever?
"Sen. Charles Starr, R-Hillsboro, was a reluctant yes, noting that his vote probably would anger some of his constituents who are upset that noncitizens would get access to in-state tuition."
DUH!
This is just an free pass to legalization.
One of the elements to rolling amnesty that is ALREADY the LAW in the USA is to allow for the person to show they are "of value" and have a high education background.
So they will kick out natural borns and legal residents in order to facilitate the illegals applications for rolling amnesty.
If this applied to those with green cards who came to America FOR an education, I wouldn't have such a problem. But in my state, California, illegals pay the same as us, and to boot they can get state assistance to pay. Tuition has gone up for citizens.
Illegal immigration is no longer illegal. Our K-12 schools are a WRECK. Thanks, American politicians.
It's time for a kid from another state to travel to Oregan and claim the right to in state tuition. How can a valuable commodity such as an education be sold to illegal immigrants at a price lower than the price set for a citizen of the United States? We need a test case. Article four may cover this.
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