Thread: MO-Legislation Bars Undocumented Imm. from Financial Aid

New Missouri Legislation Bars Undocumented Immigrants from Financial Aid

Marshall Griffin -2009-07-08
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (KBIA) - Governor Jay Nixon signed several bills into law Tuesday, including one that bars undocumented immigrants from receiving various forms of financial aid at Missouri colleges and universities.

The new law also defines which documents international students may use to verify their status.

Jennifer Rafanan (RAH-fah-nahn) is Executive Director of the group Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates. She's pleased that harsher language barring undocumented immigrants from enrolling in college was removed before passage:

It's a good compromise we don't want to bar students from having access to higher education, and that doesn't create a good educational climate in our state.

Rafanan says, though, that more work needs to be done to make immigrants feel welcome in Missouri.

The new law took effect immediately.


http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kbia/ ... ancial.Aid

I look forward to the day when our government and schools try to make Americans feel comfortable again. Our government spends so much money trying to make immigrants feel comfortable. I read an article in the Wall Street Journal a long time ago where they said we spend approximately 40% more to teach an immigrant than we do our own citizens.

What is wrong with this picture? Our kids are committing suicide, not going to college, doing drugs and we are busy trying to make illegal immigrants comfortable.

She's pleased that harsher language barring undocumented immigrants from enrolling in college was removed before passage:

I'm not.