[lonestar]

Why should my daughter, a U.S. citizen, have to pay more than an illegal to attend Texas A&M? Answer me that.

Glad to! Because your daughter hasn't lived in TX for three years!

If your daughter can get a sports scholarship to A&M she won't be required to pay OOS tuition...and if it's in baskeball she'll be on the National Championship team.

BTW, 16,000 thousand illegals don't go to U of T as Romney suggested.

[nhwingut]

Why should my daughter, a U.S. citizen, have to pay more than an illegal to attend Texas A&M? Answer me that.

Glad to! Because your daughter hasn't lived in TX for three years!

No sh!t Dick Tracy. My question is... Why is this okay with you? Why should a U.S. citizen pay more to go to a Texas college than an illegal alien of this country?

[steel_resolve]

You did not answer the question and don’t play like you did.

[jurroppi1]

So TX state residency doesn’t have the prerequisite of being a US citizen to attach proper state residency? I ask because I am ignorant of the law on this.

To me this boils down to a legal residency debate, and personally (regardless of the laws) i don’t believe a non-US resident should be able to obtain any state citizenship until they are a legal US citizen. In state college tuition should require legal citizenship of both the state and the country, because the US fed subsidizes the tuition. Don’t like that idea, don’t take the fed money - this is in every tax paying citizen’s interest, not just the specific states’ respectively.