Posted on 09/06/2026 4:48:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
California is paying tens of millions of dollars for illegal immigrants to attend college — infuriating Golden State natives struggling to pay their tuition.
California provides illegal migrant students with state-funded grants and other financial aid, while thousands can also benefit from in-state tuition rates, waivers for community college fees and subsidized loans.
Approximately 102,000 illegal migrants were attending California colleges and universities as of 2023, the largest share of any state in the US. The staggering benefits come as many middle-class California families struggle to qualify for substantial financial aid while facing college costs that can easily run above $45,000 a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
All good those are permanent rat voters after all gotta give en whatever they want.
Truth. I have paid $$$$$$ in California income, property and sales taxes for most of my life. Now my children can’t get admitted to flagship UC schools because UC engages in illegal affirmative action by using household income and parental education and zip code redlining as a proxy for race. So 14% of white and asian suburban kids with 4.0 GPA and high test scores are admitted vs. 50% of Title I (read illegals) high school kids with subpar academics. And worse the illegals pay no tuition and are subsidized with my tax $$.
One of big things where I am grateful to be in the US where ome things can be a state issue and not nationwide.
That being said, my sympathies to conservative Californians
When I was a Marine at Pendleton I had to pay out of state tuition while illegals paid in state or nothing.
It’s not as if anyone attending any CA ‘kollege’ is getting a real education - STEM excepted.
California provides illegal migrant students with:
<><>state-funded grants and other financial aid,
<><>thousands benefit from in-state tuition rates,
<><>illegals get waivers for community college fees
<><>and subsidized education loans.
<><>102,000 illegals were attending Cali colleges and universities as of 2023,
<><>represents the largest share of any state in the US.
The staggering taxpayer-subsidized benefits to illegals come as many working-class California families struggle to qualify for financial aid while facing college costs that can easily run above $45,000 a year.
...And the many active duty military members there on orders trying to take a few night or online classes pay OUT OF STATE tuition rates.
It says state-funded grants. I wonder if the rest of us are paying for them through Pell grants.
.......”state-funded grants.” I wonder if the rest
of us are paying for them through Pell grants.
Good point.
I was born and raised there. Fresno state was about $3000 a year. I even had the pleasure of having VD Hansen for a history professor.
I avoid Cali as much as possible. I have family there. It is such a shame what the dems did.
Insane. I was born and raised in there eastern Sierras and love Cali. My family all moved there from Poland and Scotland in the early 1900s. What a dump now. I grew up on the edges of Mono Lake. A harsh area for sure. I absolutely love that place. But, as I always say, the problem with California is it is in California...
All the fcking Socialists in this State would gleefully hand out every cent of our citizen tax revenues to any illegal, so long as its not THIER own money.
They’ll ultimately cause the financial failure and collapse of our state.
You get the government that you vote for and your vote allows this, and you do it voting cycle over voting cycle. You’ve got exactly what you want.
Kick the GD DumpOkraps outta your State. problem solved.
That is precisely what is happening and it’s affected all of us.
It’s also the reason UC academics are becoming a laughingstock, not just UCSD.
Harmeet Dhillon has gone after them and labeled them as discriminating against White and Asian applicants using race proxy criteria as you said. But it remains to be seen how long it takes her to get results from federal courts filled with Biden appointees.
My solution is pull their charters under the Morrill Act.
“Golden State natives” what a weird way to phrase it.
Native means they originated in “the golden state”.. but we also know that more than half of them moved to another state in the past 10 years so... Are the current Texas transplants in that list?
What’s to stop someone with a “hispanic sounding name” from claiming to be illegal to get the in-state rates and/or preferential treatment on admissions?
It’s not so easy to claim to be illegal because the FAFSA uses social security numbers. It seems to have been really easy the past years to do the reverse and use a legal person’s SSN to take out a fraudulent student loan in their name, though. Looks like 1/3 of applications at California colleges in 2024 were fraudulent. https://abc7.com/post/ghost-student-scammers-are-using-ai-steal-financial-aid-federal-investigators-warn/18495539/
So that’s just lovely, not only are we sending illegals to college for free while we pay exorbitant amounts or can’t even get in, but now we also get to deal with fake loans in our names. The two-tier justice system Victor Davis Hansen has been warning about for many years has spread.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.