Bush Education Plan Passes House [Jeb's plan prohibits financial aid to foreigners; Dems protest]

tbo.com.news ^ | March 24, 2006 | By CATHERINE DOLINSKI and JOSH POLTILOVE The Tampa Tribune

[summer]

"This bill takes a very myopic view of what America is supposed to be," said Rep. Curtis Richardson, D-Tallahassee.

Sounds like this guy doesn't know how diverse Florida already is in terms of its legal population!

[summer]

This was news to me, also from the article:

Florida's substantial population of Caribbean and Latin American college students would keep their financial aid packages, owing to existing state law that classifies them as state residents for tuition purposes

[summer]

FYI.

[summer]

And I thought this GOP guy was right;

"This is one attempt to move our citizens to the front of the line," Kravitz said. "Once we take care of our own, there is no problem providing money for other people."

[summer]

More on Jeb's latest education reforms HERE.

[snowman1]

Apparently this bill has no provision to assure that they are legals getting this aid. The way this looks illegals will still feed at the trough.

[summer]

Well, I haven't read the bill, but the article does specify "legal" residents of FL will be getting this aid, as needs-based aid, instead of foreigners.

[gondramB]

Flashback Texas, August 2005

"WASHINGTON – Nearly 4,000 Texas students would face a major tuition hike or loss of state financial aid if a conservative legal group successfully challenges a state law that has made college affordable for many illegal immigrants."

Sadly the original article is down but I preserved some of it in a blog.

The bottom line is that this is state issue but its replicated all across the country and anybody who tries to fix it gets called racist.

http://rationalconservative.blogspot.com/2005/08/in-state-rates-for-illegal-immigrants.html

[HawaiianGecko]

"accusations of xenophobia"

This is no more xenophobic than out of state tuition being higher than local tuition. Out of hemisphere should be even higher.

 

[summer]

BTW, I don't know how many people reading about this bill, especially Dem lurkers, will realize this true fact: well-known private universities. even the most liberal ones, typically prohibit all forms of gift financial aid to foreign students. Foreigners usually have to cough up all that money on their own.

[Wage Slave]

I'm glad our citizens are now at the front of the line, with gazillions of non-citizens from the Carribean and Latin America. I feel much better now.

[summer]

Good point.

[summer]

I don't know how that existing law came into being! From the article, it sounds like something that was in place awhile ago, though I don't know for sure.

[summer]

Re your post #8 - Very interesting. Thanks for the link; I did go and read it.

[B4Ranch]

If you have round eyes and white skin, "Git to the back of the line!"

[x5452]

I could see giving aid to permanaent residents but not folks here on visas.

[summer]

I think the FL GOP is trying to do the right thing here. "Needs based" aid for college should go to legal FL residents instead of foreigners. I guess that is what you are trying to say, too.

[stopem]

"4000 illegal immigrants are taking (STEALING) subsidized slots that are supposed to be reserved for in-state citizens.

"Yet another way would be to say that 4,000 people have been caught stealing from the tax payers.

[summer]

It's amazing to me that FL colleges, or any states, have given aid money to foreign students on visas, when private univrsities flush with financial aid money for students will not even do that -- and haven't done that for a very long time!

[Wage Slave]

The Republicans have saved the day! Respect their authoritah!