Sheesh!
I wonder what endeavor to improve mankind they "studied?"
Good. More buckling down on lawbreakers will help!
I never thought this was fair for those who are citizens of the US.
They say you can't deport 12 million illegals (or whatever the estimate is now), but if you continue to remove the reasons they are staying/coming to the US illegally, seems logical that many of them will go home or somewhere else (yoohoo, Canada?!) because they can't find work, places to live, free medical care, free food stamps, etc. here any more.
Sheesh!
I wonder what endeavor to improve mankind they "studied?"
Wait a minute, isn't that,...well,..."illegal"?
What about their "feelings"? Their "self-esteem"?
Pretty soon, they'll be trying to stop Islamofascists from nuking NYC and other extreme things like that. I hope CAIR doesn't hear about this. They need more trained pilots.
Do I need a sarcasm alert here?
If you are going to give in state tuition rates to illegals, then you should give them to everyone, no matter what state they are from.
Why should a student from Maryland ,going to school in Atlanta pay a higher tuition rate than an illegal from Guatamala? That doesnt even make sense.
This treats a symptom, not a cause.
If someone is raised in the US as an American, *and* they have lived in a particular State all their lives, *and* they have good grades, *and* the only thing keeping them from fully integrating as a contributing member of our society is their citizenship status, well HELL, fast-track those kids to become US citizens!
It is utter nonsense to keep hard-working, successful people *out* of the US or to keep them from education or employment that benefits us all. Just as it is utter nonsense to force such people to spend the ten or twenty of the most productive years of their lives having to fight to get citizenship, so that they will only finally become citizens just in time to retire.
And don't even tell me that by keeping out an ethnic Mexican but otherwise totally American kid from being trained as an architect, it will suddenly make the offspring of Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson a brilliant research scientist in his place.
Now don't get me wrong. I strongly believe that States shouldn't give illegals in-State tuition. What I do believe is if the kids are Americanized in all other ways, they *should* get fast-tracked to citizenship ASAP, without their having to leave the US to do so.
I know several "illegal" kids who came to the US as infants, know nothing of Mexico and know no one in Mexico, don't speak Spanish very well, have gotten good grades in high school and want to go to college. They are Americans in every sense of the word but one--citizenship.
It is as utterly ridiculous to demand that they go to Mexico to get their US citizenship in ten years, as it would be to demand the same thing of some white kid whose family name is Smith. And anyone who has kids here should feel the same. No way in heck would they send their kids off to live in a foreign country for ten or twenty years just because they don't have a piece of paper.
Well now, ain't that just fine. Why the H%ll were they giving them tuition breaks in the first place. They must smell the alums breathing down their backsides.
Thank goodness Georgia has the sense to call an illegal an illegal.
"Ten states offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, according to the National Council of La Raza. Many of those states have faced lawsuits from U.S. citizens paying out-of-state tuition rates."
That's a good reason to sue. Why should citizens be discriminated against vis a vis foreigners? It's unconstitutional. Violation of the equal protection clause.
Wait a minute.
How is an illegal without a college education going to
'do the jobs Americans won't do'?
Now, if only Texas would wise up as well. Totally disgusting illegals get freebies and take our kids' desks.
"It's unconscionable to punish children for the sins of their parents,"
But it's perfectly ok to punish the state taxpayers, right?
What a tule.
What's unconscionable is to tempt even more parents to sin because of the payoff: to have their kids given an advantage denied to the children of legal citizens of other states who didn't break the law.
Government gets more of what it subsidizes. If it subsidizes single parent families and it gets more single parent families. If it subsidizes sloth and inefficiency, it gets more sloth and inefficiency. If it subsidizes illegal immigration, it gets--guess what?--that's right: more illegal immigration.
Come on now Mr. ZAMARRIPA! You know full well that this in-state vs. out-of-state tuitiion thing is merely the incremental erosion of law that you liberals have practiced for decades. The illegals don't give a whit's damn about reducing the tuition. What they are really after is designation as a resident via in-state status, thereby becoming elligible to qualify for Georgia's Hope Scholarship program, something which will provide them completely free college education. This, my friend, directly affects other Georgia citizens and is something for which other Georgians like me will not stand
Perhaps groups like MALDEF and LULAC could raise some money and give out scholarships.
But others say the change will only hurt communities where high school drop out rates are high and college attendance rates are paltry at best.
It is unclear how many students will be affected...
Apparently, it won't affect very many.
ping
They make it sound like it's just a side effect of doing the right thing, but fear of a lawsuit is just about the only real reason.
Wow! some common sense.
WTF? Why doesn't the law apply to *all* illegal students instead of just the "high-performing" ones? What is the purpose of targeting illegals with high grades? This makes no sense at all.
they shouldnt' subsidize the tuition of in state students, that is the root of the problem...