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.
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And they wonder why California businesses are moving away.
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.
Why would they do that? Are they offering degrees that American students don’t want to study for?
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?
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.
Has he asked the Government of Mexico?
30 pieces of silver...
Meanwhile, the students at Berkley are rioting over tuition rates going up................
USC 8 Sec. 1324. 5 years in prison for this violation.
He should've listened to One.
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.
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.
Ping!
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.
Donate money for the education of the help's children? They'd never do it.
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.
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.
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!
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