Thread: ALIPAC: Battle brews over tuition for illegal immigrants

Battle brews over tuition for illegal immigrants

Mar. 27, 2009 06:51 PM
Hackensack Record

HACKENSACK, N.J. - A national group that favors strict immigration policies has launched a campaign in six states aimed at drumming up opposition to in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants.

William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration says the group will deploy activists from around the nation to New Jersey, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Rhode Island and Wisconsin to lobby state legislators and hit the talk-radio circuit.

"In-state tuition for illegals legislation replaces innocent American students in the limited seats in college at taxpayer expense," said Gheen, who is based in North Carolina, where the group helped defeat measures that would have allowed illegal immigrant students to attend college at in-state tuition rates. "These bills also violate federal law, provide taxpayer rewards and incentives for people to illegally immigrate to America."

Immigration advocates in New Jersey said they were unaware of the new campaign but vowed to fight it vigorously.

"This campaign won't get past the first exit of the New Jersey Turnpike," said Cid Wilson, a trustee of Bergen Community College in Paramus.

"You're going to see a strong movement against this campaign," Wilson said. "Many of these students are undocumented through no fault of their own. Many have become shining stars in high school, and the only thing keeping New Jersey from reaping the rewards of their intellect is that a college degree is not within their reach."

Many college loan and grants programs require proof of legal immigration status. So, unable to pay out-of-state fees, many undocumented high school graduates forgo four-year colleges or try to scrape together money for county community colleges.

Some 10 states allow in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants and this week, bills allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants were reintroduced in both houses of Congress.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 27-ON.html

I HOPE SOME ONE READS THIS.


A COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS ALL WE COULD AFFORD AND I'M LEGAL AND WHITE. AND FRANKLY, SCRAPING TOGETHER THE FUNDS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE WAS HARD TOO.

WHY SHOULD THESE PEOPLE GET BETTER OR SPECIAL TREATMENT?

"Many of these students are undocumented through no fault of their own. Many have become shining stars in high school, and the only thing keeping New Jersey from reaping the rewards of their intellect is that a college degree is not within their reach."

So. A lot of things are not my fault but I live with them. College is not out of their reach, they just have to pay full price like the student visa holders and Americans attending from out of state. That's just fair.

Additionally, if they want a cheep education, they can get a 4 year degree for about $1,000 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. http://www.unam.mx/

Dixie

"This campaign won't get past the first exit of the New Jersey Turnpike," said Cid Wilson, a trustee of Bergen Community College in Paramus.

Wanna bet?

Originally Posted by miguelina

"This campaign won't get past the first exit of the New Jersey Turnpike," said Cid Wilson, a trustee of Bergen Community College in Paramus.

Wanna bet?

I have something I would like to say to old Cid Wilson.

I'd like to say....

Buddy youre a boy make a big noise
Playin in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo face
You big disgrace
Kickin your can all over the place

We will we will rock you!
We will we will rock you!

Buddy youre a young man hard man
Shoutin in the street gonna take on the world some day
You got blood on yo face
You big disgrace
Wavin your banner all over the place

We will we will rock you!
We will we will rock you!

Buddy youre an old man poor man
Pleading with your eyes gonna make you some peace some day

You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Somebody better put you back in your place

We will we will rock you!
We will we will rock you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NGtorQ9EB0

Not the Dominican, Cid Wilson, who has very close ties to MALDEF, LA RAZA, Charlie Rangel, Bronx Boro President Adolfo Carrion, and representative of the Dominican and Puerto Rican governments and wants further free trade agreements between North America and The Dominican Republic and has Hispanic-only interests for the new Latino Nation of America, Cid Wilson... and lifetime member of the NAACP???? Not the SAME Cid Wilson, could it be???????????

Gee, you'd begin to think he has illegal Latino interests and not Legal U.S. Citizens in mind when it comes to his agenda.... interesting....

This Cid Wilson?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3OUiqeQNlw

Yeah, that's him... good old MALDEF, LA RAZA member...

Dominicans on Wall Street Board Member also (here's a little background):

Cid Wilson

Cid Wilson is a U.S.-born Dominican-American and a life-long resident of Bergen County, New Jersey. He currently serves as Director of Research for Kevin Dann & Partners LLC in New York City, a brokerage and Wall Street research firm. He covers the Retailing Hardlines sector and gives financial advice to multi-billion dollar institutional clients (i.e. banks, hedge funds, asset management firms, insurance companies, states, sovereign countries, and more).

Mr. Wilson previously served as Vice President and Senior Analyst for Whitaker Securities, a Wall Street investment bank. As an associate research analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, his team was voted as a runner-up for five years to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team.

Mr. Wilson is a member of the Association for Investment Management & Research and the New York Society of Securities Analysts. Yahoo! Finance ranks Cid Wilson as one of the top Wall Street financial analysts in the country based on his accuracy in forecasting corporate earnings. In February 2004, Cid Wilson made the cover page of Black Enterprise Magazine, where his success as an Afro-Latino was profiled nationally to millions of readers.

Mr. Wilson additionally serves as President of the Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) in Washington, DC, the only organization in the U.S. that focuses on Dominican issues at the national level, as a member of Governor-elect Jon Corzine's Gubernatorial Transition Team focusing on property tax reform, founding boardmember of Dominicans On Wall Street (DOWS), Boardmember of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund (PRLDEF), President Emeritus of the Latino American Democratic Association of Bergen County (LADA); Life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Leadership Circle Member of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Political Liaison Chairperson for the N.J. Conference on Dominican Affairs, and Member of the Ohio State University Alumni Association.

Leadership Circle Member of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR)

Now we know why he supports this bill in NJ! Cid is in the Tan Klan!

W