Thread: Alert !!! Colorado needs help!!!! Update: Tuition REJECTED

Got this in an email!




ALERT!


The Colorado Senate last week approved Senate Bill 11-126
to give in-state tuition rates to illegal alien students. The bill would give illegal aliens a financial advantage at the expense of American students whose families are struggling to put their children through school. There are only so many admissions, so each illegal alien admitted would displace a qualified American student.

The bill has been assigned to the Colorado House Education Committee .


ACTION ITEMS

The bill will be heard by the Education Committee on Monday, April 25, 2011, at 1:30 in the Old Supreme Court Chambers in the State Capitol.

1. Go there Monday and testify against the bill! Why? Your testimony will publicly oppose the bill. It will place on-record facts that clearly show the bill is in violation of Federal and Colorado law (more info below).

There are very few chances to make a difference in the legislature each year. This is one of them. The committee is the only place where testimony will be heard. You can make a difference.



2. Call and email. The House Education Committee consists of the following Representives. Do call and/or email them. But keep in mind that on this short notice, public testimony on the bill is really the best way to make your opinion known.


Tom Massey, Chair (R - Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Park, Pueblo, Saguache Counties; 303-866-2747, tom@tommassey.org )
Don Beezley, Vice-Chair (R - Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Weld Counties; 303-866-4667, don.beezley.house@state.co.us )
Judy Solano, Ranking Democrat Member (D - Adams County 303-866-2918, judy.solano.house@state.co.us )

Chris Holbert (R - Douglas; 303-866-2933, chris.holbert.house@state.co.us )
Janek Joshi (R - El Paso; 303-866-2937, janak.joshi.house@state.co.us )
Andrew Kerr (D - Jefferson; 303-866-2923, andy.kerr.house@state.co.us )
Millie Hamner (R - Eagle, Lake, Summit; 303-866-2952, millie.hamner.house@state.co.us )
Carole Murray (R - Douglas; 303-866-2948, murrayhouse45@gmail.com )
Cherylin Peniston (D - Adams; 303-866-2843, cherylin.peniston.house@state.co.us )
Robert Ramirez (R - Jefferson; 303-866-2950, robert.ramirez.house@state.co.us )
Sue Schafer (D - Jefferson; 303-866-5522, sue.schafer.house@state.co.us )
Ken Summers (R - Jefferson; 303-866-2927, ken.summers.house@state.co.us )
Nancy Todd (D - Arapahoe, Denver; 303-866-2919, nancy.todd.house@state.co.us )


3. Call The Colorado Speaker of the House: Frank McNulty (R - Douglas; 303-866-2346, Frank@FrankMcNulty.com )

Showing up to oppose this bill is the best way to let them know Americas do care! Arrive early and sign in, copy down notes from here and throw in a "Illegal immigration is already costing the state of Colorado $1.5 billion dollars a year!" "And unemployment is still 9.2% in our state!" And don't forget afterwards out in the hallway is where to rub elbows!

And please don't assume someone is going to speak out on you're behalf, because one of the people speaking on my behalf sounded like a moron! it's like "Please don't help me I'll help myself!"

Stick to the money issue, it's the one thing they can't argue against! Show passion for what you believe in and be respectful!

Walk around the building afterwards, heck there were rooms with all kinds of good food in em' "Hi I'm stevetheroofer, what's your name!"

You'll do great Colorado

ALL rewards and benefits like this must be done away with, along with Birthright Citizenship. In-State tuition or any other bennie or perk will only guarantee the next and far more massive wave of Illegal aliens flooding across the border.
In-State tuition for Illegals is only an invitation for more Illegal Immigration...

WHERE IS JUDICIAL WATCH???


Lawsuit threat prompted reversal on college tuition for illegal immigrants
Trustees' chairwoman says board had been bullied

Apr 21, 2011 | Comments

Written by
ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER Filed Under

One County College of Morris trustee mentioned the prospect of being sued and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills. Others said legal considerations played a part in their deliberations over tuition rates for illegal immigrants.

In the weeks leading up to their vote on Wednesday night, CCM's trustees had received letters from freeholders and a national conservative group called Judicial Watch saying they were violating federal laws. Concerns about those laws, and the possibility of lawsuits, seemed to spur a 9-2 vote to charge higher, out-of-state rates to undocumented students even if they live in the county.

The vote came at the end of a meeting in front of more than 200 people that lasted almost four hours and included emotional testimony from dozens of people on both sides of the issue.

After the vote, some undocumented students who said they could not afford out of state tuition rates had tears in their eyes. The vote reversed part of a policy that the same board approved, 7-1, just two months ago.

"I'm not in favor of defending in court a vote of ours that might cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees," trustee Alan Gordon said during the meeting.

Elaine Johnson, chairwoman of the trustees, voted with the minority and said she believed the trustees had been bullied, although she did not specify who was doing the bullying. She said the February vote to charge in-county tuition to undocumented students, many of whom have lived in the U.S. most of their lives, seemed simple at the time.

"Then the bigotry, hatred, threats and lies came," she said. "I realize bullying is so wrong. . . . There is no law that currently exists that makes the act we took (in February) illegal."

The CCM trustees voted on Feb. 26 to allow some undocumented students into the school — as long as they lived in the U.S. at least five years and were here before they were 16. They had been barred following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The trustees also voted to charge in-county tuition to students who live in Morris County.

That gave CCM a written policy similar to what many other county colleges are doing across the state without writing it down. A recent New Jersey Press Media survey found most county colleges, without adopting policies, check only whether students reside in their counties and not whether they are documented.

Morris County freeholders, saying they didn't want to support tuition breaks for illegal immigrants with taxpayer money, asked the CCM trustees to reconsider the lower tuition rates.

"I was pleased with the (Wednesday night) vote, and I also was pleased with the process," said Margaret Nordstom, a freeholder liaison to CCM.

Edward Yaw, president of CCM, said college attorneys in recent weeks had taken a closer look at relevant laws and court cases related to them, and that "the legal aspect" had been a driving factor for many of the trustees' apparent change of heart. Yaw had been in favor of the February policy but didn't take a position on Wednesday's amendment, other than to say it allows undocumented students to get an education. He did say laws related to tuition breaks for undocumented students are ambiguous.

"I still believe there's no law that prohibits the actions (that the board) previously took," Yaw said. "We felt all along the potential was there to be sued by one side or the other."

About one week before the vote, Judicial Watch sent a letter to Johnson saying CCM's policy adopted in February violated a 1996 federal law barring illegal immigrants from receiving "local public benefits" unless they are provided by state law. Judicial Watch has sued a Maryland school over in-county rates for undocumented students.

Paul Orfanedes, director of litigation for Judicial Watch, said his group is considering whether to continue the lawsuit now that Maryland has passed a law that, once signed, would make it the 11th state to offer in-state tuition to undocumented students. He said the letter to CCM was meant to clarify the law.

"If you think encouraging people to follow the law is bullying, then we are bullying," he said after being told Johnson had used the term "bullying" to describe some of the reaction to CCM's February policy change.

Alina Das, a professor with the New York University Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic, said the federal law does not "specifically prohibit" lower tuition rates. The NYU clinic has been giving legal direction to Wind of the Spirit, a local immigrant rights group.

Yaw said CCM might revisit the issue if additional court cases clarify related federal laws.

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/2011 ... ionstories
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-231862-.html

Originally Posted by PaulRevere9

ALL rewards and benefits like this must be done away with, along with Birthright Citizenship. In-State tuition or any other bennie or perk will only guarantee the next and far more massive wave of Illegal aliens flooding across the border.
In-State tuition for Illegals is only an invitation for more Illegal Immigration...

YES THE INSANITY MUST BE STOPPED!!!! Also, Voting fraud was rampant in Colorado in the 2010 election. Illegal were voting like crazy there. That is why the progressives Hickenlooper and Bennett won in Colorado. Sickening, the voter fraud has to be straightened out before 2012 as well as all these perks for the illegals.

Bttt

"And reporters gather in hallway after a controversial bill like this!"

Instate intuition for Illegals Rejected

April 26, 2011 7:15 AM
MATT STEINER
THE GAZETTE
(AP) — A Republican-led House panel rejected legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to attend Colorado colleges at the lower in-state tuition rate.

Republicans who voted against the bill Monday said it would entice more illegal immigrants to come to the U.S. and provide false security to students who would not be able to legally work after graduation.

Democrats argued that allowing more students to attend college would boost the state's economy and that the children of illegal immigrants should not be punished for their parents' mistakes.

Senate Bill 126 would have allowed illegal immigrant students to qualify for in-state tuition if they meet certain criteria, such as attending a Colorado high school for at least three years and graduating from a state school.

This is the fifth time such a bill has failed in Colorado.


http://www.gazette.com/articles/sunrise ... z1KddVl1Nd

This is the fifth time such a bill has failed in Colorado.

It gets old when they keep trying to shove perks for illegals through. They really want to stuff Colorado with illegals so they will all be there ready to do voter fraud for Obama in 2012.

Democrats argued that allowing more students to attend college would boost the state's economy and that the children of illegal immigrants should not be punished for their parents' mistakes.

"We want they're parents to return home and our border secured!"