Thread: Boston: A blow for illegals' tuition

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A blow for illegals' tuition
By Emelie Rutherford / Daily News Staff
Friday, April 29, 2005

BOSTON -- The House removed a plan to allow children of illegal immigrants to attend state colleges at in-state tuition rates from its state budget proposal, giving Milford Democrat Rep. Marie Parente a slight victory in her battle against the tuition plan.
"Why are they coming here, to do us good or harm? You don't know, and I don't know," Parente said outside the House chamber to state Rep. Deborah Blumer, D-Framingham, a supporter of the measure.
"These are kids who have gone to our high schools," Blumer countered.
The tuition plan requires children of illegal immigrants to have lived in state for three years, have graduated from Massachusetts high schools and be seeking citizenship or permanent residency.
Parente and Blumer, who stand on opposite sides of the issue, acknowledged House members voted, via a voice vote, in favor of Parente's amendment to strike the plan from the budget primarily because of House leaders' wish to keep policy out of the budget process. Thus, the issue has not died.
A House Ways and Means Committee hearing will be held next week on nearly identical legislation to usher in the tuition plan. Parente said she will attend the hearing.
"So the battle's not over," Parente said after House budget debate ended last night. "This is just one skirmish."
Parente said the issue boils down to "whether we're a country of laws," because illegal immigrants are breaking federal law.
Blumer said the plan, which the Board of Higher Education voted to support last year, is not a financial matter and thus should not be dealt with through the budget process. The tuition plan was included in an outside section of the proposed budget released by the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this month. A similar plan was passed by the Legislature last year but vetoed by Gov. Mitt Romney.
Two amendments were filed to strike the tuition plan, the one by Parente that was voted on and another endorsed by Republicans, including Rep. Paul Loscocco of Holliston and Susan Pope of Wayland.
Charter schools
The House moved against considering another hot-button topic during budget deliberations: capping the amount communities pay charter schools. An amendment on education matters did not include a proposal filed by Blumer that would have capped at $5,000 the amount communities pay for each resident's charter school tuition. The state, under the charter school proposal, would pay the balance of tuition costs.
Blumer said the amendment, sponsored by the Massachusetts Association of Superintendents, is "relatively complicated" and needs to be weighed during legislative hearings.
Blumer pointed out a state program that allows kids to attend public school in a different district than their home similarly calls for communities to spend $5,000 of their Chapter 70 education aid funds for each student.
"The animosity that has occurred in the local areas between charter schools that are starting up and continuing and expanding is very much based on the financing of charter schools," Blumer said.
Marc Kenen, executive director of the Massachusetts Charter School Association, said earlier this week the plan would hurt charter schools' bottom lines and is "totally unfair."
Debate on the House budget continues today. Local aid increases and reimbursement rates for hospitals' treatment of uninsured patients are expected to be discussed.

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Even in Mass there is some level of sanity.

Even in Mass there is some level of sanity

they've got one heck of a battle ahead of them. Let's see what the Kennedy/Kerry/Drinan Machine does behind the scenes.

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Even in Mass there is some level of sanity

they've got one heck of a battle ahead of them. Let's see what the Kennedy/Kerry/Drinan Machine does behind the scenes.

Kennedy is up in 2006. Can Mass please for the love of god put this dinosaur out to pastor?

Kennedy is up in 2006. Can Mass please for the love of god put this dinosaur out to pastor?

LOL, DMAN!
No way they'll let that whale RETIRE as long as that HUGE road/bridge thingy is still sucking up our taxdollars and spitting them into Mass.

the only chance we've got to sing sianara {sp} is if he drinks himself into a coma.

Massachusetts!!! You should have put this Globalist out to pasture 35 years ago....do it NOW before the Man and his Global Elite Cronies take down the United States.

Kennedy = Globalism = Marxist Socialism = Global Elites and Drones of Commerce.

Wake Up Massachusetts......this man is the brother.....not The Man.

Remove all benefits to illegal aliens and start sending them back to their country of origin.

This Nation started in Boston.....the Revolutionary War actually began with the Boston Tea Party.

It's time for another Party.....the END of illegal immigration into the United States to support sneaky, weenies like the:

Fords
Rockefellers (oh yeah, part of the Open Border Lobby, check the list)
Carnegies
Mellons
Soros
ACLU
Southern Poverty Law Center
AFL-CIO
US Chamber of Commerce
Microsoft's Gates
Kelloggs
Taco Bell
Home Depot
Wal-Mart
etc. etc. etc. etc.

It's repugnant....get these BeanHeads out of our government and then out of our economy!!

JUDY wrote

get these BeanHeads out of our government

I'm laughing myself off my chair........for some reason this just got to me.
WELL SAID!

Hmmmmm? What could the protest signs say?

one importent piece of information to get out is that if a school gives instste to an illegal they have to give it to an american citizen tooooooo..... thanks lou dobbs for that important info!!!!!!!!!!!

GP, can you verify that info for us? Sounds good but we need the "law" in order to use the info.

thanx

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

GP, can you verify that info for us? Sounds good but we need the "law" in order to use the info.

thanx

It was already signed into law by Bill Clinton back in 96.

Originally Posted by Judy

Massachusetts!!! You should have put this Globalist out to pasture 35 years ago....do it NOW before the Man and his Global Elite Cronies take down the United States.

Kennedy = Globalism = Marxist Socialism = Global Elites and Drones of Commerce.

Wake Up Massachusetts......this man is the brother.....not The Man.

Remove all benefits to illegal aliens and start sending them back to their country of origin.

This Nation started in Boston.....the Revolutionary War actually began with the Boston Tea Party.

It's time for another Party.....the END of illegal immigration into the United States to support sneaky, weenies like the:

Fords
Rockefellers (oh yeah, part of the Open Border Lobby, check the list)
Carnegies
Mellons
Soros
ACLU
Southern Poverty Law Center
AFL-CIO
US Chamber of Commerce
Microsoft's Gates
Kelloggs
Taco Bell
Home Depot
Wal-Mart
etc. etc. etc. etc.

It's repugnant....get these BeanHeads out of our government and then out of our economy!!

Your post are the best.