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Next up from Team Biden: Free college for illegals?
American Thinker ^ | 02/06/2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 02/06/2024 4:43:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind

For all his talk about wanting to get the border crisis under control, Joe Biden is still holding out fresh goody bags for the illegals.

Sure, California is offering them free health care and New York is offering them free $1,000 debit cards handed out on the honor system that they'll only be used for food and baby supplies.

But what better than for Joe Biden to top them by offering free college to illegals, too?

That's what this looks like, with this measure preparing the groundwork for it:

According to the New York Sun:

The Department of Education could soon extend taxpayer-funded federal college-prep programs to illegal immigrants, a move that would upend longstanding policy on educational grants as record numbers of migrants cross the Southern Border. 

The department’s Office of Postsecondary Education is considering including immigrant students in its so-called TRIO programs, which provide postsecondary educational services to low income, first generation, or disabled students at a cost of $1.2 billion a year. The issue will be raised during a subcommittee meeting on Friday, following a proposal last month that TRIO expand its eligibility to include undocumented students. 

This change would go against a 1986 federal statute that has prevented illegal immigrants from receiving benefits from TRIO as well as other federal grants, loans, or work assistance. TRIO, named after its first three programs — Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services — boasts eight programs that help more than 800,000 low-income students annually with getting into college and staying in college.

So it's not exactly free college yet, but what is the purpose of handing out college prep benefits to the illegally present in this country other than to get these illegals eventually into American colleges?

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: college; illegals; tuition

1 posted on 02/06/2024 4:43:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Free money each month, free health care, free housing, get-out-of-jail cards, no photo ID to fly...

Next, free car insurance, cars, drivers licenses (for those states not already giving them), and job services to take jobs from Americans. Give them a chance and they will offer tax benefits to employers giving illegals jobs over Americans.

2 posted on 02/06/2024 4:48:16 PM PST by Reno89519 (Biden, Democrats, and Some Republicans may have surrendered, but I have not. Defend America!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ha -Minnesooota has this already!!

“Nearly 81,000 Minnesota residents who are undocumented immigrants can receive up to 120 credit hours of free tuition at a state university.” from scripps news

BTW— the DEMON rats want to open the WHOLE state to illegals!!

So that SMALL towns can’t call ice or arrest them!!


3 posted on 02/06/2024 4:50:19 PM PST by mj1234
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To: SeekAndFind

When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.

Bobby Knight


4 posted on 02/06/2024 4:50:23 PM PST by JZelle
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To: SeekAndFind
How many of them actually finished high school?

-PJ

5 posted on 02/06/2024 5:04:22 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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because we are such a generous country, wanting to give illegals free everything, then we should pay off all student debt of average workers....not so much drs and lawyers, but the regular bunch....

debt slavery is all it is...

6 posted on 02/06/2024 5:07:20 PM PST by cherry
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To: mj1234

This would be a very invasive procedure for small towns, would it not? Seems they would be bankrupt in short order. What happens then? Wouldn’t leave a lot of choice but for the small town to make life unbearable or impossible for their illegals or for the town to just cease to exist. Really bad idea!


7 posted on 02/07/2024 5:22:48 AM PST by oldtech
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