Posted on 11/11/2015 12:04:54 PM PST by Borges
Recent debate on immigration has turned for the worse. A massive deportation proposal put forth by some presidential candidates is senseless. It would devastate Illinois’ economy and destroy hardworking immigrant families.
Illinois has always depended on the innovation, hard work and optimism of immigrants from around the globe. In the face of federal gridlock, we have led the nation in rational, state-based solutions.
We passed in-state tuition and the Illinois DREAM Act to allow our driven, talented undocumented students to go to college and beyond. I am thinking about students such as Irakere Picon, who recently completed law school at Northern Illinois University, keeping a promise that he made to then Representative and now House Speaker Paul Ryan that he would finish law school and defend the U.S. Constitution.
The recently passed temporary visitors driver’s license program has so far licensed and insured nearly 200,000 undocumented immigrants in Illinois, injecting an additional $160 million into our state economy each year, and making the roads safer for you and me.
An upcoming piece of state legislation in a similar spirit that I wholeheartedly support is the Student Access bill.
Passage of the Student Access bill would allow 4-year public universities to offer financial aid to every student enrolled at their institution on a competitive basis regardless of their immigration status. This is a commonsense investment because our state already invests in every student in K-12 education. By simply creating a level playing field for our undocumented students at no additional cost to the state, we are investing in our state’s future.
Some members of my Republican Party argue that any approach to comprehensive immigration reform should begin with securing the borders. I believe our best security ought to be the economy. The federal government has wasted billions of tax dollars on deportation programs that do not work and on securing the borders, though the numbers show that our borders are as secure now as at any time in recent memory.
A rational approach to comprehensive immigration reform should begin with the young people who were brought here as babies, toddlers and adolescents. Many of them can legally work as a result of the federal government’s policy of deferred action, which allows certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children to receive a work permit and protection from deportation.
Creating a level playing field for their higher education is an investment in our state’s future. When we do it right, our future is bright.
The Student Access Bill will make us economically stronger. It is politically smart and morally right.
“It would devastate Illinois’ economy...”
How would we know anything was different?
Led the nation? What is this idiot talking about? Leading the nation in corruption? Violent crime in Southside Chicago? Dysfunctional school systems? Moronic toll both arrangements which make Pennsylvania look like a model of efficiency? Former governors in prison?
The second worst president in history? Sorry, but Pennsylvania is still number one in that category.
I no longer care about these things as much as I did only 6 months ago.
Trump Deportation Force is the answer.
Thank God America is awakening.
student aid for undocumented immigrants . who would get the money ? Oh ,just give the money away
Another oligarch puppet who needs some neck traction.
Illinois has always cozied up to lawbreakers, murderous criminals and crooks. So why should criminal invaders be treated any differently./s
With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vzMNG2fZc&feature=youtu.be
This is being advocated by a Republican who was governor during the 1990’s.
Yeah, no.
FU Jim Edgar.
This guy is a Republican! He was governor of Illinois in the ‘90s.
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We passed in-state tuition and the Illinois DREAM Act to allow our driven, talented undocumented students to go to college and beyond. I am thinking about students such as Irakere Picon, who recently completed law school at Northern Illinois University, keeping a promise that he made to then Representative and now House Speaker Paul Ryan that he would finish law school and defend the U.S. Constitution.
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This is rich—so an illegal alien is going to defend the US Constitution...made this promise to Paul Ryan—even richer :(
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Yup 2 wrongs make a right according to Edgar :(
OH yes, we have always had thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming across the southern border every year...what BS!!!
Many of them can legally work as a result of the federal government’s policy of deferred action, which allows certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children to receive a work permit and protection from deportation.
Creating a level playing field for their higher education is an investment in our state’s future. When we do it right, our future is bright.
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Yes, three wrongs now make a right—so the illegal aliens can now get jobs here due to the federal flouting of the law...How does that make our state’s future bright?
Thanks Jim ...Given your philosophy of government as presented, I am sure your administration planted the seeds for many of Illinois budget problems...:(
I’ll ask my state rep. (Carol Sente, a Lincolnshire Democrat) to vote against that bill. State Senators Dillard and Duffy voted for the state dream act. I’m glad they decided to leave the senate, partly for that reason.
Cabals of whores, all of them in every state.
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