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Students will pay price for illegal immigrants

A recent opinion piece, “Tuition policy limits future for undocumented immigrants� discusses the issue of giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students and hints that it might be a dream come true for some.

Giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants will become a bad dream for legal residents in North Carolina. First of all, giving privileges to those who have come illegally to America becomes a reward for having broken the law. It will encourage more illegal immigration.

There happens to be more qualified students in North Carolina than there are openings in our state universities. Therefore, every illegal immigrant allowed into the universities with in-state tuition will victimize one (legal resident) North Carolina student.

We are told by illegal-immigrant advocacy groups that the dependent of an illegal immigrant should not be punished for what their parent has done. But if illegals are allowed to attend our universities, North Carolinians will be made to pay the price of illegal immigration. Already illegals are allowed to attend our state universities as out-of-state students. Each one will disenfranchise an American student.

What must be going on in the minds of the tens of millions of would-be immigrants who are waiting patiently in line to legally come to America? They aren’t even able to attend as out-of-state students. They must feel like a chump for playing by the rules.

There are a lot of issues we can honestly debate, such as how much money to spend on schools or how to fix Medicare. But we certainly shouldn’t be discussing how to better reward illegal immigrants at the expense of North Carolinians.

-- Ron Woodard, Cary