Posted on 11/15/2010 11:08:41 AM PST by bestintxas
The California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that illegal immigrants may continue to be eligible for in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges and universities rather than pay the higher rates charged to those who live out of state.
In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, one of the panel's more conservative members, the state high court said a California law that guarantees the lower tuition for students who attend California high schools for at least three years and graduate does not conflict with a federal prohibition on giving illegal immigrants educational benefits based on residency.
California is one of several states that permit illegal immigrants to take advantage of lower college tuition for students who attend high school and graduate in state. About 25,000 illegal immigrants are estimated to receive in-state tuition rates in California.
A group fighting illegal immigration challenged the California law on behalf of U.S. citizens who pay the higher tuition as out-of-state students. The group won in lower court, and the state appealed.
The lawsuit contended the California law usurped a federal prohibition on giving educational benefits based on residency to illegal immigrants but not all U.S. citizens. College students who are in the country illegally are barred from government financial-aid programs. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected eventually to decide whether the lower tuition rates also violate federal law.
[Updated at 10:29: The court observed that the state law also benefits U.S. citizens who reside in other states but attend and graduate from high school in California.
"It cannot be the case that states may never give a benefit to unlawful aliens without giving the same benefit to all American citizens," Chin wrote.]
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
This is disgusting to the core, as they elevate those here illegally above American citizens.
So the mental gymnastics are you can live here and attend high school for three full years without being counted as a resident???
How is this Supreme Court Justice in California considered ‘conservative’?
“[Updated at 10:29: The court observed that the state law also benefits U.S. citizens who reside in other states but attend and graduate from high school in California. “
So how exactly can one reside in say, Iowa, and attend a Cali High School??? Of course one cannot.
This was a ruling based on sophistry.
But you can’t have a US flag on your bike in school...
That does boggle the mind, doesn't it?
He stinks. I am glad I voted against him in the retention election.
Maybe we need to do the Iowa thing and replace the justices up for vote in 2012 or 2014 who voted for us having to pay for in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
But the problem is Jerry Brown will appoint the new justices. :P so we’re blanked if we do blanked if we don’t.
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session.
I know one of these judges and he considers himself pretty conswervative!! OMG!!
After all, we don't want the Court legislating from the bench, right?
In California, "conservative" is a transsexual who wears his skirt hem below the knee, or someone who believes the top tax rate should never exceed 100%.
Give it to Mexico and be done with it.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=438&page=265
“Never mind!” CA Supremes
Yet more nonsensical left-wing MADNESS from the land of fruits and nuts.
And if the student attends for less than three years or goes three years and doesn't graduate, is he deported? (crickets)
Judicial sophistry.
“So how exactly can one reside in say, Iowa, and attend a Cali High School??? Of course one cannot.”
If you live in Tijuana and your kids are bi-national (born in a San Diego hospital free of charge) your kids can attend school in San Diego. Every day thousands of kids come across the border in the morning with their bookbags etc. In the afternoon the same kids go home to Mexico. This has been going on for decades and the local school administrators do not care.
“This has been going on for decades and the local school administrators do not care.”
But I do if any of my federal taxes go to the public school system in San Diego. That means I am subsidizing this.
Actually the local school administrators are happy to have kids from Mexico in their schools because it allows them to take more of YOUR money that YOU pay in federal taxes.
“In California, “conservative” is a transsexual who wears his skirt hem below the knee, or someone who believes the top tax rate should never exceed 100%.”
Pelosi is a transsexual?
“I am writing my congressman to demand not one cent of my money goes to California to pay for education or pensions.”
Best In Texas,
Instead of writing to your Congressman regarding a California law that grants in-state tuition for illegal aliens, you may want to start a bit closer to home by writing a letter to your member of the Texas Legislature regarding the Texas law that grants in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
“Texas awarded about $33.6 million in state and institutional financial aid to those students (Illegal Aliens) between fall 2004 and summer 2008.”
“In 2001, Texas became the first state in the country to pass an in-state tuition law. The law created a national movement. Many private universities also now award aid to illegal immigrant students.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0315dnmetimmigcount.3d35b14.html
“Yet more nonsensical left-wing MADNESS from the land of fruits and nuts.”
California simply copied a law that was passed in Texas in 2001.
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