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    Petition to Stop Taxpayer Funded Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

    Petition to Stop Taxpayer Funded Tuition for Illegal Immigrants



    June 6, 2017

    The issue of taxpayer funded tuition for illegal immigrants may be headed to the nation’s highest court.

    The Supreme Court is being petitioned to review the proper use of funds by independent state agencies after it was revealed the School Board of California was using millions of dollars for unlawful purposes.
    One America’s Kendall Forward has more from Washington.

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    SCOTUS to probe UC giving $27M in tuition to illegals?

    Saturday, June 3, 2017
    | Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)



    A government watchdog organization is asking the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to look into a ruling made by the California Court of Appeals that permitted the University of California system to hand over $27.1 million in taxpayer funds as financial aid to illegal aliens to pay for their non-resident tuition costs.

    A petition challenging the issuance of taxpayer funds to illegals on behalf of Earl De Vries – a California taxpayer and legal resident – was filed on May 23 by Judicial Watch (JW) in lieu of his lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California. The pro-sanctuary state move was rooted in an unconscionable law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Ca.) several years ago that invites illegal aliens to get a free education while legal taxpaying students pay.


    “Federal immigration law requires that a state law providing benefits to illegal aliens must ‘affirmatively’ provide for such eligibility,” Judicial Watch stated in a press release Thursday. “In 2011, the California State Legislature passed and Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid. Under the California Constitution, however, the UC Board of Regents is ‘entirely independent’ of the state legislature in policy matters, so there is no lawful way for the California legislature to allow or require the University of California to provide the public benefits for illegal aliens. And, under the federal law, only state legislatures may provide any in-state tuition and public benefits for illegal aliens. Despite this, the UC Board of Regents began providing the benefits anyway.”


    Tens of millions stolen from residents, given to illegals?


    In the petition issued to SCOTUS, the watchdog group contends that renegade judges in California are usurping the authority of the federal government by okaying state funds to immigrants who are in the Golden State illegally.


    “By finding that entities other than state legislatures can determine illegal aliens' eligibility for public benefits, the Court of Appeal's decision weakened the federal government's powers over national immigration policy, transforming a law that allows 50 state legislatures to participate in immigration decisions into one that could allow 500 or 5,000 state agencies and local governments to participate in those decisions,” JW’s petition reads.


    Representing Earl in his taxpayer lawsuit that was filed in August 2014, JW attorneys are seeking to get to the bottom of the unlawful distribution of tax dollars being used to send illegal immigrants to college – ahead of legal taxpaying students.


    “[We are] asking the court to halt the estimated annual $19.6 million in non-resident tuition waivers; $4.3 million in taxpayer-funded grants and scholarships; and $3.2 million in state loans the Regents had started giving illegal alien students,” JW announced. “Under California law, taxpayers have the right to sue to prevent unlawful expenditures of taxpayer funds and taxpayer-financed resources.”


    California’s Court of Appeal dismissed JW’s complaint in March 2015 – a decision that was affirmed last December by California’s Second Appellate District, Division Seven. The following month, JW attorneys filed a Petition for Review with the California Supreme Court, but that challenge was denied a month later on February 22.


    JW President Tom Fitton stands in disbelief that judges and politicians in America’s most populous state – whose paychecks are paid by California taxpayers – are getting away with breaking the law they have vowed to uphold.


    "California politicians should follow federal and state law rather than attempt to unlawfully force California taxpayers to subsidize illegal aliens," Fitton declared in JW's recent release. "In-state tuition for illegal aliens at the University of California is just another form of sanctuary policy, which is both a misuse of tax dollars and a violation of law."


    Suing the state to follow the law

    The ongoing legal battle attempting to make state officials abide by the law so they will not continue to encourage and financially support illegal aliens getting a free education in California – where law-abiding taxpaying residents applying for such funding are regularly denied such resources and must pay for the same opportunity – began nearly three years ago.

    “[The expenditures are unlawful and Plaintiff seeks an injunction] permanently prohibiting Defendant from expending or causing the expenditure of taxpayer funds or taxpayer-financed resources [for either tuition waivers or financial aid benefits to illegal aliens], JW’s lawsuit, Earl De Vries vs. Regents of the University of California, argues. “[If the court does not intervene], the Board of Regents … will continue to expend substantial taxpayer funds and taxpayer-financed resources exempting unlawfully present aliens from paying nonresident supplemental tuition at UC schools and allowing unlawfully present aliens attending UC schools to apply for and participate in state-administered financial aid programs.”


    De Vries contends that state officials are being allowed to break the law as millions of Californians condone the politically correct action in the name of so-called “tolerance” or “multiculturalism” promoted in the schools.


    “Taxpaying California citizens deserve to have their hard-earned money spent lawfully,” De Vries proclaimed in an August 2014 JW news release issued when the lawsuit was filed. “What the state is doing is not only illegal, it’s unfair to taxpayers.”


    Fitton also made no sense out of Californians turning a blind eye to state officials circumventing the law to promote and enforce their progressive pro-immigration policy.


    “Our client, Earl De Vries, like all taxpayers in California, ha[s] a right to expect that the University of California follow the law and cease using tax dollars to provide illicit subsidies for illegal aliens,” Fitton declared in the release. “Public officials on the UC Board of Regents need to put immigration politics aside and obey both federal law and the California Constitution.”


    Wake up, America

    Earlier this year, Fitton gave Americans a wake-up call warning them about what is taking place as they stand idly by.

    “A confrontation between certain states and localities and the federal government is looming over the matter of giving sanctuary to illegal aliens,” Fitton wrote in an article posted by Newsmax in February.

    “Top of the list is California, which seeks in every perverse way to defy the law. Consider its misuse of its tax dollars in its University of California system.”


    The legal expert pointed out that radical Left state leaders are essentially undermining federal law to implement their aggressive immigration reform that is nothing less than illegal.


    “[T]he lower courts ignored federal immigration law requiring that a legislature ‘affirmatively’ provide for the illegal alien tuition benefits and that the lower court decisions could upend federal immigration law,” Fitton restated his legal team’s argument.


    He argues that the renegade move by state officials is a bold move toward making California into America’s first “sanctuary state.”


    “California politicians want to do an end run around federal law to force California taxpayers to subsidize illegal aliens,” Fitton concluded. “In-state tuition for illegal aliens at the University of California violates state and federal law as surely as any other sanctuary policy – and California tax dollars must not be spent to violate the law.”

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    Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.


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