Posted on 12/27/2008 8:47:11 PM PST by HollyButler
Even as the illegal alien advocacy lobby is frantically trying to spin the election of Barack Obama as a mandate for a sweeping amnesty, they have all but conceded that the economic crisis and worsening unemployment have probably doomed their efforts. They've set their sights on the more modest goals of achieving amnesty for segments of the illegal alien population and using those to leverage further concessions down the road.
Advocates for illegal aliens believe that the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act offers them their best hope to enact a mini-amnesty. The DREAM Act would confer amnesty on most illegal alien youths and just about anyone who could vaguely be described as a student, and guarantee them subsidized in-state tuition rates in their states of residence on the premise that as children, they are not responsible for being in the country illegally. It would also result in a de facto amnesty for many parents, and entitle these kids to sponsor other relatives in the future.
Just as suddenly as passage of the DREAM Act seemed to be within the grasp of the illegal alien amnesty lobby, it appears to be slipping away. America's higher education system especially public universities and colleges is facing a crisis.
The nation's economic woes have hit state budgets hard, as revenues have fallen and demands on services and benefits have increased. Nearly every state has increased tuition rates and cut programs, and it's still not enough. "We have put the education system on a starvation diet, and each and every year it becomes weaker," said California's Lt. Governor John Garemendi. University of California Chancellor Charles Reed has publicly discussed exercising his authority to cut enrollment.
At precisely the time when California's higher education system is "on a starvation diet" and enrollment
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Interesting. A South Carolina law that went into effect this years states that illegal aliens can not attend a state school. Forget about in-state tuition, they can't attend. Period.
I'm sure the feds will take us to court to force us backwards rednecks to cough-up the dough and give up our kid's seats to those poor, undocumented scholars.
Insane that nonsense such as that has ever been immigration policy. It one is legalized, they can bring in many more.
Any dream act ought to take place over in Mexico.Mexico has lots of Money when they actually need to have money to advance the cause of illegals here.
I propose that minors here illegally through the fault of their parents be eligible for citizenship if they earn a HS diploma, stay out of trouble with the law, and serve in the military for five years.
Not by going to college. Any idiot can do that.
Oh, and no right to legalize the adult family members.
Sadly, the in-state-tuition-dream for illegals is still alive in Utah.
Apparently our centi-millionaire gov Huntsman feels that the $85 million/yr it costs the peasant taxpayers to educate illegals is mere chump change. And 70% of the voters here just re-elected this silver spooner!
No.... You're kidding? Liberals couldn't possibly have been fiscally irresponsible, could they?
The in-state tuition rate extended to illegals but not out-of-state citizens should be challenged in court as a violation of the Privileges and Immunities Clause (Art.IV section 2) of the US Constitution and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Many years ago in 1982 the United States Supreme Court ruled (wrongly) in Plyler v. Doe on a 5/4 vote that illegals were constitutionally entitled to an education from K-12. Today, we have 65,000 illegals graduating each year from high school and states like California allow them to enter state colleges and universities at state tuition rates that are denied to out-of-state citizens. It’s time for various states to put propositions on the ballot for 2010 and see how the D’rats position themselves on this at a time of declining revenues and a stubborn refusal by the D’kats to cut non-essential spending.
What a BRILLIANT way to ensure a 2010 GOP victory! This bill won’t pass; remember how we raised hell in 2006?
Mexico loves to dump their losers and criminals on us, making us pay for their healthcare, education and retirement.
Imagine if we tried that!
The liberal schools will be all for financing ILLEGALS educations even if US citizens are forgotten in the quest for income redistribution.
Isn't it amazing how precedent often becomes set in stone, as if it were anunshakable mathematical proof? In their vanity, the legal profession acts as if it is.
It is especially unnerving when you realize that political influence at the Supreme Court level (just a Ginsburg or two) can screw up the direction of the country for a couple of generations.
Maybe they should really bite the bullet and ask their faculty to teach more than six hours a semester.
Published: December 26,2008
Op-Ed Contributor
“Bank on California” Money Laundering Scheme May Bankrupt California
By Tony Dolz
MatriculaFakeID
The state of California will go bust by March of 2009. Over the cliff we will go and to make sure there is no looking back, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave us an extra shove in the back - the Bank on California scheme.
This week the Governor has startled even his most adoring followers. He launched a program called “Bank on California” for the express purpose of allowing illegal aliens to open bank accounts and get loans using the fraudulent Mexican Matricular Consular and Central American “consular identification cards”.
These consular identification cards, which only illegal aliens need, can be purchased for as little as $20 on any big city street corner or for $40 from the official Mexican consulate. In the last few years the Mexican government has put in action a huge fleet of Mexican Consulates on wheels for the purpose of handing out Matricular Consular identification cards in any town and village in America where Mexican illegal aliens can be found. In some instances American public schools and libraries with administrators sympathetic to illegal aliens and open borders are allowing the mobile consular identification operations to issue these questionable identifications from classrooms and meeting rooms, to the outrage of taxpayer groups.
U.S. CONGRESSMAN TED POE CALLS MATRICULAR CONSULAR A HOAX AND A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK....
http://newsblaze.com/story/20081226123302dolz.nb/topstory.html
Absolutley not! It's just another "anchor-baby" scam!
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