From the ArcaMax Publishing, News & Features Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/newsheadlines/s-374299-619144
MCLEAN, Va. (UPI) -- Lawmakers in several U.S. states have taken
actions making it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to go to
college, officials say.
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.