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    Maryland Voters Approve In-State Tuition for Illegal Alien Students

    Maryland Voters Approve In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students

    By Lesli A. Maxwell on November 6, 2012 11:48 PM

    Undocumented immigrant students will be eligible for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities in Maryland after voters there overwhelmingly ratified a state law at the polls on Tuesday.

    With 84 percent of precincts reporting just before midnight, 58 percent of voters answered "yes" on Question 4, while 42 percent voted against the measure that grants in-state tuition rates to undocumented students, the Associated Press reported.

    Maryland voters were the first in the nation to go to the polls to weigh in on a statewide measure that will lower the financial barrier to higher education for undocumented students who came to the United States as children and meet certain conditions.

    The Maryland Dream Act was approved by state lawmakers and became law in 2011, but was challenged by Republican opponents who collected enough signatures to bring the matter before statewide voters in a referendum on whether to keep the law or repeal it.

    Maryland's law—one of roughly a dozen similar measures in states—requires potential beneficiaries to first attend community college as one of the conditions for receiving in-state tuition.

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    Some of the worst news of the night right here folks.

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    How could any American citizen with a child vote for this?

    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    How could any American citizen with a child vote for this?
    1. The Democrats were able to get the language on the ballot to their favor.

    2. The GOP opposition to this measure was in shambles. They succeeded in getting it on the ballot and then their ground game seemed to fall apart. They had little to no grass roots campaigns fighting back and no appeals to the rest of America for support. Better organization, more money, and more advertising and grass roots could have beaten this measure.

    But in Maryland, conservatives are completely outnumbers and out funded by the libs.

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    There was no ground game. All the pro-illegal aliens voted for. Rural countries like mine vote soliday against it. The problem is we were overwhelmed as always by the votes out of Baltimore and Montgomery COuntry. There are the home bases of the illegal immigrants allies and also of illegal immigrants themselves.

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    Md. Grants Dream Act, Allowing In-State Tuition For Illegal Immigrants

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)—A dream turned reality for thousands of Maryland students after voters pass the state’s Dream Act.

    Monique Griego has more on what it means for undocumented immigrants.

    The Dream Act passed 58 to 42 percent Tuesday night.

    It will allow some undocumented immigrants in Maryland to pay in-state tuition.

    After 10 years of fighting, campaigning and hoping, Maryland dreamers are waking up to a new reality after voters pass the Maryland Dream Act, which gives qualifying undocumented immigrants access to in-state college tuition.

    “I was doing my homework. I just stopped doing my homework. I didn’t know what to do. I was so happy,” said 19-year-old Cindy Kolade.

    Kolade is a student at Baltimore City Community College. As an undocumented immigrant, she struggles to pay out-of-state tuition, which is around three times the in-state rate.

    “It is really stressful,” she said.

    Now with the passage of the Dream Act, her road to higher education just got a little easier.

    “These kids have been fighting for this for so long, some of them like half their lives,” said Liz Alex, Casa de Maryland.

    In order to qualify for the Maryland Dream Act, students had to have attended a Maryland high school for three years and also have to prove their parents pay taxes.

    “This will allow a lot of students like myself to go to community college and transfer to a four-year university,” said Jesus Perez, who came to United States when he was 5 years old.

    “When you’re in school in America, that’s what they push you to go to school, get an education and go to college,” Perez said.

    But Perez didn’t think he’d be able to afford college until Tuesday night.

    Now he and other dreamers say their hopes are becoming a reality.

    “Just to have a better life here in America. The American dream as they call it,” Perez said.

    “The dreamers are not going to deceive Maryland. We’re going to bring a lot of good stuff to Maryland,” Kolade said.

    Unlike the federal act, Maryland’s Dream Act does not address citizenship in any way.

    Supporters hope students will able to use the Dream Act starting in January.

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