In a word - yes. It's not my fault, not my doing, and not my responsibility to pay for their education. Maybe if they sold their Escalade or their flat-screen they could pay for it themselves.
Or their 3 cell phones - iPhone - Blueberry - flat screen TV etc...
I am sure these children of illegal parents (that is parents that crossed the U.S. border illegally with their children) do pay for their college education with their own money. I hope you are not confused about what it means to pay in-state tuition rates. In my state your tuition costs are much lower than what an out-of-state student will pay. For students in our state it is a double-edged sword. Yes, our students pay reduced rate tuitions. However, the colleges limit the number of our students in favor of the increased money they can get from out-of-state students. Only exceptional in-state residency students get admitted. I am sure this happens in other states. So, in-state students of whatever race must be exceptional students if they get admitted to college. So why penalize these exceptional students because they happened to be children of parents who did the wrong thing? There is no situation in our culture where we punish children because their parents did the wrong thing. In fact, if the parents are bad enough, we take the children away from them and put them in foster homes. We are a people who believe in fairness.
Rockrr— exactly the point. Arguments from the liberal side always pick up the discussion at the point where the need has arisen: illegals are here, now they need healthcare and college tuition; the poor need healthcare, food, housing, etc. These issues have to be tackled at the root: illegals have needs because they came here illegally— solve that issue first. The poor and the addicted, by and large, find themselves in financial distress because they refused to take advantage of the many opportunities made available to them, most notably freed public education, and incidentally, the opportunity not to have multiple children without benefit of marriage and the opportunity to forego taking drugs and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. Sure these folks have needs, because (again, by and large) they brought their problems upon themselves. The formula for success has been frequently stated: graduate from high school; wait for marriage before having children and keep your debt reasonable. When we reward/rescue folks who simply refuse to do this, we encourage others to follow in their stupid footsteps.