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Berkeley chancellor seeking funds for undocumented students
Contra Costa Times ^ | 8/25/11 | Matt Krupnick

Posted on 08/25/2011 10:18:04 AM PDT by SmithL

BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley is asking some of the country's largest foundations to help undocumented immigrants afford college.

Buoyed by a new state law that allows public colleges and universities to offer private scholarships to students who came to the United States illegally, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said Wednesday he has spoken to major organizations such as the Carnegie and Ford foundations about helping the university.

"One was nervous about the political impact," he said in an interview after his annual back-to-school media briefing. "The other said, 'This is fantastic.' "

Birgeneau has been a vocal supporter of undocumented students -- he spoke to President Barack Obama on the subject earlier this year -- and has advocated in favor of laws allowing those immigrants to attend school and become citizens.

Berkeley is among the first campuses to take advantage of the new law, which allows schools to raise private money for scholarships for undocumented students. Those students, many of whom were brought to the United States by their parents when they were 5 or younger, often have trouble affording college because they are ineligible for federal and state aid, loans and many scholarships. In order to qualify for in-state tuition, the students must have graduated from a California high school and have attended high school here for at least three years.

The requests to major foundations are thorny because of the politically charged immigration issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; berkeley; beserkeley; illegal; illegalaliens; uc; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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Robert Birgeneau, an employee of the people of California, is actively aiding and abetting criminal activity.
1 posted on 08/25/2011 10:18:06 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

And they wonder why California businesses are moving away.


2 posted on 08/25/2011 10:21:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: SmithL

UC Berkeley is asking some of the country’s largest foundations to help undocumented immigrants afford college. Why should they go the foundations when they have the biggest communist bunch to ask - hollywood! I just wish california would just go away like a bad dream.


3 posted on 08/25/2011 10:23:11 AM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: SmithL

Why would they do that? Are they offering degrees that American students don’t want to study for?


4 posted on 08/25/2011 10:25:04 AM PDT by BUGSWOL (No one was ever burned at the stake for saying the Earth was flat)
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To: SmithL
Undocumented is such an incredible misnomer. These people aren't undocumented. The word undocumented implies that they lack documentation. They don't lack documentation. I'm sure most, if not all of them, have documentation from their HOME countries.

From the article:

Those students, many of whom were brought to the United States by their parents when they were 5 or younger, often have trouble affording college because they are ineligible for federal and state aid, loans and many scholarships.

Many citizens have trouble affording college as well, mostly because the government has driven up the price so much with all of the subsidies. California's answer is to make it easier for illegals to attend college?

5 posted on 08/25/2011 10:28:43 AM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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To: SmithL

How about some funds for the taxpayers who are forced to pay for these illegals’ health care?


6 posted on 08/25/2011 10:31:12 AM PDT by American Quilter (aka American Hobbit)
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How about some funds for the taxpayers who are forced to pay for these illegals’ health care?

Quiet, you. Illegals have a constitutional right to receive health care. It's in there, right next to the constitutional right to kill your baby.

7 posted on 08/25/2011 10:33:24 AM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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To: SmithL

Has he asked the Government of Mexico?


8 posted on 08/25/2011 10:38:32 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I feel really uncomfortable, because I love loving him," --brilliant Matha's Vinyud liberal)
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To: SmithL

30 pieces of silver...


9 posted on 08/25/2011 10:58:42 AM PDT by null and void (Day 944 of America's holiday from reality...)
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To: SmithL

Meanwhile, the students at Berkley are rioting over tuition rates going up................


10 posted on 08/25/2011 11:15:04 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: SmithL

USC 8 Sec. 1324. 5 years in prison for this violation.


11 posted on 08/25/2011 11:23:15 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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"One was nervous about the political impact,"

He should've listened to One.

12 posted on 08/25/2011 11:33:01 AM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: SmithL

Heck... why not?

Perry has more or less already done this in Texas.

I’m simply surprised he beat California to the punch.

Hmmm.... probably had something to do with that meeting he had out “west” some months back.


13 posted on 08/25/2011 11:52:12 AM PDT by A Voice (Something to ponder: Why are Bibles not allowed in schools, yet are in prisons?)
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To: SmithL

Maybe he could ask for donations at the border from all the folks headed South.. to cover for the cost of their kids education here.


14 posted on 08/25/2011 12:51:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!


15 posted on 08/25/2011 1:48:10 PM PDT by HiJinx ("The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate." ~ Louis L'Amour)
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To: 10thAmendmentGuy

Just let ‘em pay their undocumented accounts with undocumented funds, give them undocumented receipts, and at the end, give them undocumented degrees.

Or you could let them make an “undocumented withdrawal” from the bank (also referred to as a “stickup”). Same difference.


16 posted on 08/25/2011 3:20:52 PM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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..the biggest communist bunch to ask - hollywood!

Donate money for the education of the help's children? They'd never do it.

17 posted on 08/25/2011 3:33:31 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (O-blame-r)
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To: HiJinx

Funds for the “undocumented”? Sounds like a cause celeb for Hollywood ‘elites’.. .and a ‘Foundation’ in the making. Or should be. . No holding of breath here, of course.


18 posted on 08/25/2011 3:36:19 PM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not madhttp://atlasshrugs2000e in the USA either.. .)
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To: thulldud

Why not? Bank of America had a pilot program in 2008, which they’ve since abandoned, that gave credits cards to those who “may not have Social Security numbers.” Obviously, the vast majority of those without Social Security numbers are illegal aliens.


19 posted on 08/25/2011 3:44:33 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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To: Mike Darancette

Donate money for the education of the help’s children? They’d never do it.

Point. And, why would they want to help the future of their underpaid live in maids? Duh, I shoulda thought of that!


20 posted on 08/26/2011 10:02:04 AM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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