The RNC would do well to take note that these whack job laws supporting illegals cannot be passed, even in a socialist state. During the vote, the balconey and lobby had a horde of illegals demanding their "rights" to low tuition.
Someone should've hollered La Migra!!
A Boston Globe headline about the defeat referred to illegals as "undocumented"...
From a Boston Herald article:
>>Children of illegal immigrants must pay up if they want to attend state colleges after lawmakers shot down a call for a bargain rate last night.
The House rejected the bill pushing in-state tuition rates for young illegal immigrants 57-96. Bill supporters, who said they’re crushed by the rejection, vowed to keep on fighting.
“Our position is that it was the politics of fear,” said Ali Noorani, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, promising to push for the bill again next year.
Opponents, however, took aim at the immigrants being here illegally to begin with.
“If I was in their country I’d be shaking like a leaf if I were illegal . . . I certainly would not be up in their State House demanding money,” said state Rep. Marie Parente (D-Milford).
(A Dem saying that, imagine that!!)
“America is fighting for its sovereignty today,” Parente added.
Many immigrant students say they cannot afford to attend state colleges at the out-of-state tuition rates they now must pay.
"During the vote, the balconey and lobby had a horde of illegals demanding their "rights" to low tuition."
Perhaps U.S. Immigration should start attending some of these hearings - - looks like a good place to find illegals for roundup and deportation.