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Colleges crack down on illegal immigrants
Since 2006, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma haven't given tuition benefits to people whose parents took them to the United States unlawfully, even if the students attended state schools their entire lives, USA Today reported Monday.
South Carolina is the only state to ban undocumented immigrants from attending public universities and colleges, the newspaper said.
"The new trend is to kick illegal aliens out of college altogether," William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, which is against taxpayer subsidies for illegal immigrants, told USA Today.
Critics say the college crackdown penalizes students for choices their parents made.
Providing support to immigrants is "the right thing to do even if it's unpopular," said North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Greensboro, who proposed a bill to stop state schools from inquiring about students' immigration status.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 07/07/2008
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07-08-2008 15:22
JMF wrote:
illegals
What is the matter that the word "illegal" doesn't seem to have any meaning in this country unlessyou are a citizen?? I am tired of ILLEGALS getting PREFERENTIAL treatment on my money. They have a country of origin. Let them go back ther a nd get everything they deserve!
07-08-2008 12:13
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Can Harrison just send me some money? I'll say that I'm a college and that I have students enrolled. Supporting my college is the "right thing to do." He doesn't want to be anti-education, does he?
07-08-2008 12:11
wrote:
The student is of legal age, so they should apply to legally be here.
07-08-2008 10:33
Shiloh wrote:
Amen, R. W. White.
07-08-2008 09:53
R W White wrote:
College Crack down on illegals
North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison is so far out of touch he needs to be recalled. If the student is illegal, then they should not be afforded any help what so ever to go to college in the US of A.
One way or another, most colleges receive money from all of us through loans and grants. There is enough "deserving" students of US citizens to funnel this support to than to give an "ok" for the illegals to stay illegal and benefit from our system of eduction!
One way or another, most colleges receive money from all of us through loans and grants. There is enough "deserving" students of US citizens to funnel this support to than to give an "ok" for the illegals to stay illegal and benefit from our system of eduction!
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