ALI Community college panel OKs illegal immigrant enrollment

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Community college panel OKs illegal immigrant enrollment

Posted: Sep. 17, 2009
Updated: 20 minutes ago

RALEIGH, N.C. — A committee of the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges on Thursday approved a policy that would allow illegal immigrants to enroll at the two-year colleges.

A vote by the full board was expected Friday.

Protest against allowing illegal immigrants at community colleges
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Under a proposed policy, students who aren't in the country legally but who graduated from a U.S. high school would have to pay out-of-state rates of about $7,000 a year. Also, lawful U.S. residents would have priority to crowded classrooms.

The country's third-largest community college system has changed its illegal immigrant admission policy four times since 2000. The latest look comes as laid-off workers fill classrooms.

Although the policy committee had little discussion of the proposal before unanimously approving it, about two dozen protesters gathered outside the Community College System offices to complain loudly about the plan.

"This is a very difficult economic time, where the focus and priority needs to be on suffering, innocent American families, not families that broke into our nation," said William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee.

Protesters encouraged passing drivers to honk in opposition to allowing illegal immigrants to attend North Carolina's 58 community colleges.

"Basically, it's our schools, our colleges," one protester said. "People that ... pay taxes should be attending these schools."

Latino advocacy groups hailed the proposal, saying it would continue North Carolina's tradition of higher education support for state residents.

"I do think today was a step in the right direction," longtime educator Nancy Gallman said. "What this simply means is that more and more students are driven to go to college. I don't see that as a problem for this state. I see that as something we should be proud of."

Gov. Beverly Perdue said in an interview this week with WRAL News that she doesn't believe people who are in the U.S. illegally should be in community college classrooms.

"In all honesty and with due respect to the Board of Community Colleges, it's hard for me to understand why we would give an education to those who can't work legally in the country," Perdue said. "Either way, it's a hard choice. Kids need an education, but if they can't work, why do it?"

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[ELE]

Nancy Gallman can personally pay for all the illegals going to community colleges with her own money since she thinks it's so wonderful. And she can also house them and their familes and feed them all and give them jobs and pay for their health insurance. She is a dim-wit.

Gov. Beverly Perdue is 100% right people that people in our country illegally should not be getting in-state tution.


Again the illegals are rewarded and the tax payers are stuck paying for them and American children may be declined a seat in favor of an illegal.

This is a real "hate crime" against the American people.

[laughinglynx]

They do this because our government gives them a per student rate that is probably better for an immigrant than for a US citizen.

We need to root this out in our laws. Every piece of legislation has some from of aid to immigrants in it. And, it never states "legal". We need to read all these bills from top to bottom and complain. It's a sure bet we will know more than the idiots voting on them in congress. They probably pay special interest groups to read the things and make sure we are GIVING OUR MONEY AWAY.

[Bullitt]

That sticks in my craw!
It is a simple case of blatant taxation without representation.
The people said no, yet they do it anyway.

[Ratbstard]

The people said no, yet they do it anyway.

The Politicians of NY didn't even bother to ask We the People they just went ahead and gave IAs instate tuition!