ALIPAC in USA Today: No College for Illegal Aliens!
Posted on Monday, July 07 @ 10:26:41 EDT
Topic: State Laws Immigration illegal legal
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 Illegal immigrants face threat of no college
By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
July 6, 2008
Some states are making it harder for illegal immigrants to attend
college by denying in-state tuition benefits or banning undocumented
students.
In the past two years, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma have
refused in-state tuition benefits to students who entered the USA
illegally with their parents but grew up and went to school in the
state. That represents a reversal from earlier this decade, when 10
states passed laws allowing in-state rates for such students.
This summer, South Carolina became the first state to bar undocumented students from all public colleges and universities.
North Carolina's community colleges in May ordered its 58 campuses
to stop enrolling undocumented students after the state attorney
general said admitting them may violate federal law.
"The new trend is to kick illegal
aliens out of college altogether," says William Gheen of Americans for
Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, which opposes taxpayer
subsidies for undocumented immigrants.
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Josh Bernstein of the National Immigration Law Center, an
illegal-immigrants advocate, says sweeping anti-immigration bills are
"a very serious threat" to the overall illegal population.
Georgia, which barred undocumented students from in-state tuition
rates in 2006, enacted laws in May preventing them from receiving state
scholarships and certain student loans.
This fall, the University of Arkansas will require students to
submit Social Security numbers and proof of residency. In May, Arkansas
Department of Higher Education Director Jim Purcell warned that
students without documentation "will not be considered as legally
enrolled students" when determining an institution's state funding.
Opponents say students shouldn't be penalized for their parents'
actions. Helping them is "the right thing to do even if it's
unpopular," says North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Democrat
who introduced a bill that would prevent state institutions from asking
about students' immigration status.
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