Texas A&M Students March for In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 18:51
Updated: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
By: Aleksandra Bush
COLLLEGE STATION- Today, the council for minority student affairs led a march through campus to take a stand for in-state tuition for undocumented students.
Recent opposition to the Senate Bill 1528 in congress, is putting the undocumented students at risk. K-ags hd news reporter aleksandra bush was at the march today and shows us how students are fighting for their education.
"I am undocumented and I work in construction,” says Alfredo Garcia, an A&M Senior.
Alfredo Garcia works hard.
"I work painting houses during the summer. I work the whole summer,” says Garcia.
Harder than most, just to get an education.
"I work the whole winter break the whole spring break so I can save money to pay for my tuition to pay for my expenses,” says Garcia.
If Senate bill 1528 is repealed undocumented students at Texas A&M will have to pay almost three times the amount of tuition they do now without any federal aid.
"Opportunities, all of your plans, your future can be taken away and banished so to be an undocumented student is to have a struggle on a day to day basis,” says Garcia.
Which is why undocumented students and their supporters are walking in the Texas Dream March. Whether you are documented or undocumented, if you support the cause then you are a dreamer and you fight for education.
"They have filled the requirement to be Texas residents, they have being paying their taxes, their families have paid sales taxes, property taxes, rent taxes to provide for the public education,” says Nery Guerrero, the president of the minority council of student affairs.
"We are fighting for justice. We are standing up for our community. That's a life changing experience. How you perceive yourself, how you perceive you community, how you perceive your life as having value and us fighting against oppression,” says Garcia.
They're fighting for the right go to school and live the American dream.
Students also marched to repeal the recent suspension of President Obama’s executive action on immigration, which allowed undocumented parents of children born in the United States to avoid deportation. A Texas judge recently put the plan on hold after 26 states, including Texas, filed a lawsuit against the president. Currently, U.S. Citizenship and immigration services is not accepting applications for the program.
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