Posted on 05/28/2010 10:19:16 AM PDT by day21221
Calif. College Offers Scholarship to Illegal Immigrants A public community college in California has set up a scholarship fund for immigrant students — including illegal immigrants.
The $2,500 scholarship has sparked anger by some, including at least one lawmaker who is threatening to cut off federal funding to the school. A public community college in California has set up a scholarship fund for immigrant students — including illegal immigrants.
The $2,500 scholarship has sparked anger by some, including at least one lawmaker who is threatening to cut off federal funding to the school. Orange County's Santa Ana College says the controversial new memorial scholarship will be funded by private donations and honors former student Tan Ngoc Tran, a student leader and immigrant-rights activist
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Sorry to insult our Californina Freepers, not directed at you but California SUCKS!!! We are getting alot of Californians here to Texas. They say they love it but why dont you do this? Why dont you do that? vent
A public community college in California has set up a scholarship fund for immigrant students — including illegal immigrants
If they are illegal aliens then they are NOT immigrant students.
How many kid born here can’t get any meaningful help going to college?
That is because 75% of Santa Ana’s residents are Illegal.
Yup. CA and sanctuary cities keep ringing the dinner bell for more illegals to sneak into the state. Then we wonder why our state and local governments (like here in LA) are bankrupt.
We DON’T suck.
We have an over abundance of gravity!
What sort of message is this sending students about the value of American citizenship and about becoming a legal citizen of the United States?
Oh, wait...
The word ‘immigrant’ doesn’t define legal status.
1). Any scholarship aimed at legal immigrants should be privately funded. The public should only fund scholarships that are solely available to the best students.
2). Illegals should not be eligible for a single service. What keeps these people around is that we employ them and we give them benifits. Work to cut off access to jobs and to cut their ability to leech and many of these parasites will self deport.
there should be a taxpayer initiated lawsuit against this.
and the employees responsible need to be fired immediately.
then maybe the bastards will start getting the message.
This is classic liberal arrogance and shows a palpable disdain for the people who pay the bills that support these community colleges. Their cloistered fantasyland is soon going to disappear as the Obama presidency continues to destroy our economy and turns ordinary Americans against these overpaid 'elites'. This kind of nonsense just brings that day closer. Ordinary Americans that work hard, strive for a better life and pay the ever-increasing taxes that allow government employees and college officials to stick it to them in every way possible are catching on and getting angry at how they have been used and mocked by people that most of us wouldn't let in our front door.
To avoid the appearance of hypocrisy, the college should refuse to accept Federal funds. After all, some of that money had to have come from "racists" in Arizona.
City pleads: Let illegals vote in elections!
‘We want to make sure all immigrants here have a say’
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is seeking to grant illegal aliens the right to vote in school-board elections if the illegals’ children attend taxpayer-funded schools.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced proposed charter amendment 100635 on May 18. The amendment may be added to the Nov. 2 ballot if at least six supervisors vote for the legislation.
“One out of three parents of the kids in our public-school system is an immigrant,” Chiu told CBS. “We want to make sure that they have an opportunity to have a say.”
When a reporter asked Chiu whether it would concern him if illegal aliens vote, he responded, “What we don’t want to do is turn our elections department into INS agents. That was an administrative situation that we wanted to avoid. Again, what we wanted to do is empower all parents and give them a voice in their kids’ education.”
“Even the ones that are here without documents?” the reporter inquired.
“We want to make sure all immigrants here have a say,” Chiu replied.
He argued that in recent years jurisdictions in New York, Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts have allowed noncitizens to vote. The San Francisco legislation states:
Charter Amendment (first draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco by adding Section 13.111, to authorize San Francisco residents 18 years of age or older who are the parents, legal guardians or caregivers of children in the San Francisco Unified School District to vote in elections for the Board of Education, regardless of whether the residents are United States citizens.
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However, according to the California Secretary of State’s office, individuals may register to vote only if they meet the following criteria:
You are a resident of California
You are at least 18 years of age
You are not in prison or on parole for a felony conviction.
You have not been judged by a court to be mentally incompetent
You are a United States citizen
Adding a separate ballot for noncitizens would cost taxpayers an estimated $250,000, according to San Francisco Elections Director Jon Arntz. He said adding a separate election would cost “a couple million dollars.”
But Chiu told CBS, “I don’t think it’s going to be a significant cost burden.”
Sponsors of the legislation include Chiu, David Campos, Eric Mar, John Avalos, Ross Mirkarimi, Sophie Maxwell, Chris Daly and Bevan Dufty.
The plan mirrors a ballot measure that was narrowly rejected in 2004, with 51 percent of voters opposed and 49 percent approving. That measure, known as Proposition F, was promoted as an initiative to “empower the parents of one-third of our children in San Francisco public schools to have a say in how their children are educated.”
The Immigrant Voting Project, a group working to expand voting to noncitizens, states, “Many of these students are citizens, whose needs are left behind because their parents lack a voice in their children’s education.”
The group adds, “Immigrant voting has a long history. For the first 150 years of our nation’s history – from 1776 until 1926, 22 states and territories allowed immigrants to vote and even hold office. Our founding fathers encouraged this practice based on the principle that allowing newcomers to vote encouraged them to build a stake and invest in local communities.”
San Francisco is considered a sanctuary city and has an ordinance prohibiting city employees from assisting U.S. immigration authorities with investigations or arrests unless required to do so by federal or state law or a warrant. The city website displays the ordinance in English, Spanish and Chinese.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on a 10-1 vote, recently approved a nonbinding resolution to boycott Arizona because of its recently passed immigration law.
(Note: Concerned individuals may e-mail the San Francisco Board of Supervisors or call (415)554-5184 or (415)554-5163.)
I didn't see any scholarship listed there which matched the description in the news article.
Link from a blog on the Orange County Register's page about this story:
http://www.ocregister.com/news/college-250523-tran-santa.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-142643-legal-act.html
"The DREAM Act would allow these students to give back to America by becoming part of the Social Security system, by paying federal and state income tax and by using their ability and education to be productive members of society," she said.
The proposed federal legislation -- introduced by Senators Richard Durbin of Illinois and Richard Lugar of Indiana and Reps. Howard Berman of California and Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida -- has been around since 2000 but has faced opposition and defeat in the past.
Rimack, a U.S. citizen who has student friends without legal status, said she's encouraged by President Barack Obama's support of the Act and growing support among legislators in Congress.
However, opponents of the proposed law say it would reward illegal behavior.
"The DREAM Act… discriminates against law-abiding American citizen and legal resident students and is yet another taxpayer-funded reward to illegal aliens for violating our immigration laws," California Coalition for Immigration Reform founder Barbara Coe said in a written statement. "Why should law-abiding American taxpayers be forced to sacrifice the education of their own children in order to fund the education of lawbreakers?"
Coe, who heads the Huntington Beach-based anti-illegal immigration organization, said her coalition and other like-minded groups are working to defeat the act.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/bill-250548-dream-sanchez.html
ONLY 75%!?
You are a resident of California
You are at least 18 years of age
You are not in prison or on parole for a felony conviction.
You have not been judged by a court to be mentally incompetent
You are a United States citizen
Yep, it's all right here:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm
So Chiu is encouraging violation of California law?
See? California has plenty of money!
My thought exactly. I thought CA was broke, now it seems CA is just kinda broke. Good to know they are still capable of being dumb leftists - even if it does mean total bankruptcy.
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