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.
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.