Illegals demand cheaper college educations
A group of Arizona State University students plan on conducting a protest at the 8 JAN Bowl Championship Series championship game in Glendale, Arizona, hoping to get a national spotlight.
Their issue? In November, Arizona citizens and taxpayers voted in Proposition 300 which removed tuition subsidies for illegal immigrants. From now on, students at Arizona public colleges and universities must pay out-of-state tuition rather than resident tuition, and removed them from eligibility for state-funded scholarships. Proposition 300 provides:
- only United States citizens, legal residents or persons otherwise lawfully present in this country are eligible to participate in adult education classes offered by the Arizona Department of Education.
- a person who is not in this country lawfully may not be classified as an in-state student or resident for community college or state university tuition purposes.
- a state university or community college student who is not a in this country lawfully is not entitled to financial assistance paid with state funds.
- restrict eligibility for child care assistance to parents, guardians and caretakers who are in this country lawfully.
- require that the family literacy program, the adult education class requirements, the state university and community college financial assistance requirements and the child care assistance program be enforced without regard to race, religion, gender, ethnicity or national origin.
So, tuition costs will be significantly higher for those here illegally. One 19-year-old complained that her tuition would go from $5,000 per year to $18,000. In the interview I heard, she said it wasn’t fair to penalize her, just because she was in the country illegally. Interestingly enough, she seemed to have the attitude that there was a certain entitlement to the money and the tuition breaks.
The same student (whose name I didn’t catch), didn’t understand how 71% of the voters - including 50% of Hispanic voters - voted in the measure. Her explanation of that was “they didn’t understand what they were voting for.” Right…
How typically liberal. They voted for it because they are too stuuuuupid to understand the issues. That sounds like what I heard from the left when George W. was voted into office - twice.
No, I think people fully understood what they were voting for. Really, it’s spelled out pretty simply. Arizona taxpayers didn’t want to subsidize the educations of people who are here illegally, working under falsified social security numbers, and who (in reality) cannot work here legally.
This young lady had been in the United States since the age of 9. She had gone through the public elementary and high school systems without a problem. It was only when she hit this roadblock that she realized how important it was to be here legally.
And why is that? Because we’ve made it so damn easy to move about in this society as an illegal. This is a complete slap in the face of those persons who came here legally, working their way through a rather laborious system, to come to the U.S. as a legal resident. Instead, they’ve used the fact that they live in a neighboring country to leap ahead of LEGAL immigrants coming from nations outside this hemisphere.
It’s not fair, they don’t deserve it, and I’m tired of hearing them bitch because they can’t always have it their way here. Do you think Mexico provides subsidized college educations for illegals? Not hardly. Says Wikipedia:
Mexico has extremely strict immigration laws for both legal and illegal immigrants. Certain legal rights are waived in the case of foreigners, such as the right to a deportation hearing or other legal motions. In cases of flagrant delicts, such as a person declaring they entered the country illegally, any citizen may make a citizen’s arrest on the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities. Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appartenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters. Mexicans have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable. Foreigners can serve in the military only during wartime.
Try pulling any of that here in the United States. You’ll find yourself being sued by the ACLU.
Here’s the bottom line - illegals have it pretty good here in the U.S. compared to their home country. So good, in fact, that many think they are entitled to any benefits they derive from being here. But the American taxpayer is slowly becoming ever more hardened to their complaints and demands. The more they protest and complain, the more most of us will continue to fight back - with legislation like Prop. 300.
We’re not stuuuuupid, just fed up!
Update - not that it matters much, but the young lady in question was named Sylvia (she wouldn’t give her last name) and she was brought to the U.S. at the age of 2, not 9 as I said above.
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I agree. I am a financial bigot! I believe in legal immigration, but not illegal immigration.
I have no rights in the country you send your tax-free under the table wages to. You and your kids should have no rights here in my country until you are at least a legal resident alien.
If you are an illegal alien you have not rights to our constitution. All 12 million of you.