Posted on 02/06/2014 2:55:25 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Vitter Introduces Bill to Put American Citizens Ahead of Illegal Immigrants for In-State College Tuition (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today introduced legislation to close the current loophole that allows illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition. Many states have used a loophole granting illegal immigrants in-state tuition if they graduated from an in-state high school. “Some of our nation’s highest unemployment rates are among recent college graduates, and we should be supporting policies that help American students get an opportunity to go to college and compete for good jobs,” said Vitter. “American students should always come first. Too many states are blatantly disregarding the spirit of existing immigration law, which could end up putting illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens.” Despite federal policy preventing states from granting post-secondary education benefits to illegal immigrants on the basis of residency, fifteen states have exploited a loophole in the law by offering alternative criteria, such as graduation from an in-state high school, to allow illegal immigrant students to qualify for in-state tuition rates. Three states have taken a step further by allowing illegal immigrants students to qualify for state financial aid. Vitter has long supported full enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws, arguing that American citizens and those that follow the legal immigration process should always receive priority over illegal immigrants. Vitter is the Chairman of the Senate Border Security Caucus.
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But the fact that we even have to pass a frickin’ law to put American citizens ahead of illegal immigrants just goes to show how bass ackwards things have gotten in this country.
Nice...but it will never be voted on.
True—but I’m noticing more and more how conservative Louisiana is……..
I have a feeling we have not seen anything yet.. With Obama in charge.. Future just looks very bleak
If you know they are illegal they should be deported. To allow them to stay and make them into a second class is likely to anger the Lord. He gave Israel explicit instructions not to oppress the stranger among them.
We aren't Israel, but it's pretty clear how the Lord feels. If we let them in, and let them stay, then we need to treat them as equals.
And I know y'all are thinking, remove the incentives and they will leave. But this isn't sufficient, it's not even much of a start. Anything short of deportation, is just oppression.
Exd 22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exd 23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Jer 7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Zec 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Mal 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
They’re not strangers, they’re criminals.
They’re not strangers, they’re thieves.
God also commands that those visiting in a country abide by the laws of that country.
Then we should deport them or prosecute them for their crime. To turn a blind eye to the crime, but then oppress them, is according to my reading of scripture, wrong.
Then we should deport them or prosecute them for their crime. To turn a blind eye to the crime, but then oppress them, is according to my reading of scripture, wrong.
True and I have no problem deporting. I have a problem winking at their illegal status and then oppressing them.
True and I have no problem deporting. I have a problem winking at their illegal status and then oppressing them.
While agree with the point about prosecuting them, it is a false leap of logic to classify them as strangers if we do not prosecute or deport them.
That’s your rule, not God’s.
The example the Lord gave of a stranger was Israel being in Egypt. How are the Mexicans being here in this land different that that? Israel moved to Egypt during the famine. They come here looking for work.
Egypt then enslaved Israel. What we're doing is short of enslavement. But when they are living here for years and paying sales taxes and probably income taxes, and yet it costs them more to educate their kids than it does ours, that's oppression.
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verb (used with object)
1. to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
2. to lie heavily upon (the mind, a person, etc.): Care and sorrow oppressed them.
3. to weigh down, as sleep or weariness does.
4. Archaic. to put down; subdue or suppress.
5. Archaic. to press upon or against; crush.
The horror. THE HORROR!!!
WOMAN’S LIB AND ISLAM
(6 minute video explains the connection)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cS4p9cFlo&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw&feature=c4-overview
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