Thread: La Opinión, CA: Protect AB540 Students

Protect AB540 Students


| 2008-09-21 | La Opinión

California must prepare its young people with the knowledge and skills to face the employment challenges of the future. The state’s public higher education system, with all of its defects, is one of the best in the country; that’s why it is to be expected that state residents benefit from a tuition that is less than that paid by students who come from elsewhere to study here in our state.

The definition of residency should make common sense and not rest on technicalities. For example, the very fact of attending a high school for several years and graduating means one has been a resident in the state; add to this that in these households taxes are being paid that end up supporting the state’s higher education system among other destinations.

This is why AB540 was a reasonable piece of legislation. It allowed undocumented students whograduated after at least three years in high school in the state and who promised to become legal residents, the ability to attend a state university and pay in-state tuition.

Now the decision of a State Appeals Court puts the law in jeopardy. It must be urgently appealed to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, students must continue with their studies because, at this point, nothing has changed.

The legal dispute is over the interpretation of a federal law. It is yet one more example of the need for a comprehensive immigration reform.

The hostility toward the AB540 students must be viewed as part of the overall hostility toward the undocumented, because the fact is, these students are not displacing other students. For the good of California, we must allow these students to continue attending the university under the present conditions.
http://www.impre.com/laopinion/opinion/ ... 365-1.html

What a shcok that a paper called La Opinion would promote a position advantageous to illegal invaders regarding in-state tuition! Is guess they also forgot that it's against the law for illegal invaders to be working in this country. But hey, that's just a minor detail for these people, remedied with a stolen or fradulent social security card.

And this:

The definition of residency should make common sense and not rest on technicalities. For example, the very fact of attending a high school for several years and graduating means one has been a resident in the state; add to this that in these households taxes are being paid that end up supporting the state’s higher education system among other destinations.

The definition of 'residency' does make perfect and common sense to individuals who are citizens of this country and want to send their children to college. The only ones seemingly having problems understanding 'residency' are those who advocate on behalf of illegal invaders and the illegals themselves who would benefit from such a distortion of state law.

'Residency' must be LEGAL residency...not stolen residency(as in you entered this country in violation of federal law)! Where they attended high school is irrelevant, since our courts got that one wrong long ago when they held that illegal invaders had a right to a k-12 education in this country. That ruling does not extend to higher education. Thank God!

Unfortunately, your 'common sense' approach to defining residency simply means that anyone who can make it across the border and complete high school, would deserve in-state tuition! I think that's what you mean when you say the law should not rest on 'technicalities.'

Further, I doubt that any household you refer to who would benefit from this law are filing federal and state income tax. There is no doubt when illegal invaders secure that job using fradulent or stolen social card, they claim the maximum amount of deductions allowed by law on their W-2.

Thus, no money is taken out of their check each week and they are probably not filing income tax at the end of the year.

Don't tell me your position is that because illegal invaders pay sales tax they should automatically receive in-state tuition! It wouldn't be the first time I have heard that argument from these people!

Now, I have spent much more time on this article ( considering the source) than was ever reasonably warranted...

The definition of residency should make common sense and not rest on technicalities. For example, the very fact of attending a high school for several years and graduating means one has been a resident in the state; add to this that in these households taxes are being paid that end up supporting the state’s higher education system among other destinations.

How can you be a legal resident of a state but not a country? Furthermore, how do we actually know these illegal alien households are paying all taxes required by law? It's a known fact that many illegal aliens are payed under the table, especially day laborers who are paid daily. With that said, illgal alien children take much more from the education system than their parents put in. The education of illegal alien children is subsidized by American citizen taxpayers!

The law on this is crystal clear, I am surprised they are just now willing to show any semblance of understanding it.

Immigration Nationality Act....NO state CAN give in-state tuition to a person in this country illegally with out giving it to a any person who is a United States Citizens. Period. and that covers all 50 states unless you are Obama and you have 57 states!

No where does it say in any law that if you have managed to avoid the law you are all of a sudden a resident....pure crap!