This is the same sleight of hand Perry tried to use in the debate that got him in trouble.......equating illegals’ opportunity to go to school in Texas with some sort of "moral imperative" that compels taxpayers to subsidize their education. (His wife, campaigning in Iowa, framed the choice as between tuition subsidies or welfare.)
Somehow, the impoverished US citizen from Mississippi is expected to pay his own way in Austin but the illegal who’s lived in Texas for three years gets a stipend from the locals.
And not just in terms of lower tuition rates; apparently illegals qualify for financial aid too.
It must be awfully confusing for Perry, as a vocal champion of state sovereignty, to find that prioritizing state residency over national citizenship doesn’t play well with grassroots conservatives outside of Texas......but he’d better find clarity soon.
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A native born American residing in Texas committed no crimes, is here legally, pays taxes AND pays more to attend the same school as the ILLEGAL ALIEN?--------If ILLEGAL ALIENS are not here with the permission of the Federal government, they should get no benefits and be deported swiftly. Mexico doesn’t educate those in their country illegally.......they are jailed and deported.
(Snort) Illegals know more about US govt giveaways than we do. Wadda ya think they got in those backpacks.....all the info needed to ride the US gravy train.
DOES RICKY KNOW WHICH IDENTITY WILL BE GETTING IN-STATE TUITION? Illegals have been willing to use forged documents and to falsify official applications (a felony). The MO is to falsify to get taxpayers to subsidize college for their kids.
REFERENCE Texas Law Offers Financial Aid and In-State Tuition to The Undocumented. Illegals get student loans to pay for college tuition via the federal government under Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Anyone can apply.......as many times as possible (using forged Social Security numbers and other fake documents. No word on illegals' loan default rate. Gov Ricky won't tell, that's for sure.)
Apparently, TX doesn’t require US citizenship to achieve state residency. Then the tuition debate boils down to a legal residency debate........a non-US resident should not be able to obtain state citizenship anywhere until they are a legal US citizen. Subsidized in-state college tuition should require legal citizenship of both the Nation and the state because the fed/govt subsidizes the tuition....... this is in every tax-paying citizen’s interest.
In-state tuition is just a lower tuition rate that a student pays if they are a resident of the state the college is located. Now, there are channels by which a student can get help in their tuition. All students can apply for scholarships, grants, student loans, and other methods to make the cost of education less of a burden. Most of the time such aid is given based upon the student's scholarship in high school. A 4.0 high school student will have many doors open to them. Colleges compete for such exceptional students and it should not matter what race they are.
You might ask, why should our students who are citizens lose the opportunity for a college grant to a non citizen? The answer is that if an education serves no purpose, then there is no reason to educate the child in the first place.
Finally, this nastiness about educating children of illegal parents is showing an unfairness that I have never seen in our culture. Never have we penalized the children for the bad actions of the parents. If anything, we have taken children away from parents who were bad enough. What this does is paint a bad picture of conservatives. There is a better way to handle this and the American people are looking at conservatives as not for the children.
As far as I know, every state distinguishes between "residence" (which can be shorter than an overnight stay in a hotel) and "domicile." "Domicile" is "home." "Residence" is where you are.
Nice pun. :)