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November 17, 2010 2:20 PM
Illegal Immigrants, In-State Tuition
On Monday the California Supreme Court ruled that illegal immigrants qualify for in-state tuition at California public colleges. According to an editorial in the Los Angeles Times:
Economically, it makes sense to encourage these students to go to college; if they become successful professionals, business owners and taxpayers in California, they will contribute to the state’s coffers. Morally, it also makes sense; it would be unfair to penalize children who arrived in this country as minors and had no choice in the decision to come, and who themselves committed no crime.
Yea, too bad in-state tuition at the University of California is now $9,402.00 a year. The illegal immigrant who can afford that price tag is already in a very difference place from most high school students contemplating college.
For all sorts of reasons that mostly pertain to the rights of noncitizens, it’s great that illegal immigrants can qualify for in-state tuition in California. Illegal immigrants pay taxes, after all. Now how about making that tuition affordable?
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Blake Sutherland on February 20, 2011 1:31 PM:
Only on the left coast could a judge and legislators believe when We THE PEOPLE empowered them to direct tax dollars to migrant Mexicans who broke into our country. Fed law states in is a crime to aid abet or harbor a known or reasonably known unauthorized alien. California a SAD AMERICAN TALE.
Anonymous on February 22, 2011 11:47 AM:
One of the reasons tuition is now so high at UC is that state money has to go to K-12 education. K-12 education is pretty much spent, now, on the children of immigrants (legal or illegal) from the last two decades of amnesty and open borders. Mexican women in the US have an average of three children, native-born women have around two. And if you think that a lawn boy or nanny or 30 year old burger flipper pays enough in taxes -- even at 8.75% sales tax-- to come close to what the state spends on their children for education, I have a bridge to sell you.