Asbury Park Press
January 10, 2010

"Average Joe" shunned in N.J.

Talk about timing. My son attends Rutgers University, and the second semester tuition payment was due on Jan. 5, the same day the Press ran the front-page headline, "Lawmakers back tuition break for undocumented."

When are we going to give the working class of New Jersey a break? Now the politicians of this state want to give illegal immigrants the same benefits people who have lived, worked and paid taxes here their entire lives get.

My family does not qualify for any financial aid to help pay for college. This is our fault. We work hard and pay our bills. Foolish of us, I know.

Rutgers is not cheap. We have to pay the salary of the football coach there. (But that is another subject.)

The approximate tuition, including room and board, is $24,000 a year and that includes the in-state tuition rate. How is an illegal immigrant going to pay that? With more money from the state that the Average Joe is not entitled to?

Kathleen Whalen

HAZLET

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