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    Barred from community colleges for now

    System is waiting for review
    Illegal immigrants remain barred from community colleges for now

    http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008 ... or-review/



    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Published: July 26, 2008

    RALEIGH - North Carolina's community college system said yesterday that it will continue to bar illegal immigrants from enrolling until officials can review a federal opinion that could allow it to drop the policy.

    "This is an important issue for our colleges and our students, and given that authority, our State Board needs the opportunity to review and discuss these findings with the care and thoroughness they deserve," R. Scott Ralls, the president of the N.C. Community College System, said in a written statement.

    The policy will be reviewed at the board's next meeting Aug. 15, Chancy Kapp, a spokeswoman for the system, said.

    The decision came shortly after the N.C. Attorney General's Office released a letter it received from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that said that "individual states must decide for themselves whether or not to admit illegal aliens into their public post-secondary institutions."

    In the absence of any state policy or legislation, schools must approve their own policy and use federal immigration-status standards to identify illegal immigrants, the letter said.

    The debate was triggered when the community-college system decided to allow illegal immigrants into all of its 58 schools, loosening a policy that had left the decision to individual schools.

    But in May, Attorney General Roy Cooper's office said that the policy could conflict with federal law, and the schools decided to bar illegal immigrants until federal officials clarified the law.

    At the time, the decision to bar such students affected about 100 people. Although the system enrolls nearly 300,000 students working toward two-year degrees, the issue ignited strong reaction from policy supporters and opponents, and caught the attention of state political candidates in the middle of primary-election races.

    Debate in several other states has focused on whether illegal immigrants should be charged in-state tuition, but expert Jim Hermes said that North Carolina wasn't alone in its fight over legal residency, not tuition.

    "Other states have considered legislation to bar undocumented students from attending public institutions. None of those bills have passed," said Hermes, a senior legislative associate at the American Association of Community Colleges.

    North Carolina was, however, different in that the ban was handled administratively, not through legislation, Hermes said.

    Forsyth Technical Community College started allowing illegal immigrants to enroll as out-of-state students in 2005. Last December, it dropped that policy after it was made obsolete by the system's decision to admit illegal immigrants, which was then superseded by the state's decision to bar illegal immigrants.

    Beaufort Bailey, a Forsyth County commissioner and member of Forsyth Tech's board of trustees, said he doesn't think that the state's community colleges should change their policy.

    "I'm still against letting them in," Bailey said. "If we let them in illegally, we are breaking the law."


    About 100 of the nearly 300,000 students working toward two-year degrees at community colleges were illegal immigrants. The system chose to allow those who enrolled in the 2006-07 school year to continue their studies.

    â–* Journal reporter Elizabeth DeOrnellas contributed to this report.

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    We need to work on this
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    Let's face it. The Feds don't want to deal with much that could make them unpopular with Latinos, they shove the responsibility onto states. States are required to deal with bankrupt hospitals, overcrowded schools, roads full of unlicensed and uninsured illegals and massive budget deficits, just because the Feds don't like playing with political hot jalapenos.
    But allowing illegals into schools, isn't that aiding and harboring illegals, which is supposed to be against federal law?
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