Thread: Need fast info on Christie's plan to sign in-state tuition for illegal aliens...

is it a done deal? when will he do it? do we have time to mount any new activism calls or have we arlready done all we can. He is going to try to sneak this under the media at Christmas radar isnt he?

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http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf...dream_act.html

2 hours ago

Christie to sign version of ‘Dream Act’ into law

By NBC's Vaughn Hillyard

One month after winning his re-election campaign, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would sign a version of the “Dream Act” into state law. The state Legislature is expected to vote Thursday afternoon on the agreement made with Christie, and the governor’s office said he is ready to sign it.
The move will offer undocumented immigrant students in-state tuition, but will not allow them to receive state financial aid.
“I want to work it out, because I want this to happen for the young men and women in this state,” Christie said in a press conference last week. “But I won’t be taken to the cleaners, so let’s all be fair with each other. You want compromise? Let’s compromise. Let’s be smart.”
The governor garnered 51 percent of the Latino vote in his re-election bid last month. He promised in October to take up the issue.
“I believe that every child should be given the opportunity to reach their God-given potential. That’s a moral requirement,” Christie said Oct. 12 to the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey. “And we need to work together to make sure that that happens. We need to make sure that we continue to work on the issues that will make those children believe that they have a bigger and brighter future. We need to get to work in the state Legislature on things like making sure there’s tuition equality for everyone in New Jersey.”
Christie’s plunge into the immigration scuffle could be a point of attack as he forays into the prospects of running for president in 2016. The move splinters Christie from other leaders in the Republican Party and their popular opposition to such a measure.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) signed a similar piece of legislation in 2001. In his run for the presidency in 2011, the governor’s stance became a firing target among the other Republican presidential hopefuls.
“I don’t see how it is that a state like Texas -- to go to the University of Texas -- if you’re an illegal alien, you get an in-state tuition discount,” said then-candidate Mitt Romney in a Sept. 2011 FOX News-Google GOP debate. “You know how much that is? That’s $22,000 a year. Four years of college, you’re at almost $100,000 discount if you are an illegal alien go to the University of Texas.”
Romney, who was fighting his own problem of having had undocumented immigrants working at his home in Massachusetts, added: “That kind of magnet draws people into this country to get that education.”
Immigration was also a thorny issue in the 2008 campaign for Arizona Sen. John McCain, who had spearheaded the comprehensive-reform effort in 2005, but by the time the talk-radio right mobilized to help kill a second bill in 2007, McCain backed off his earlier strong support.
"I understand why you would call it a, quote, shift," McCain said in November 2007 in South Carolina. "I say it is a lesson learned about what the American people's priorities are. And their priority is to secure the borders."
By the time 2010 and a Tea Party challenge came along, McCain was cutting ads urging the government to "Build the danged fence."

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...m-act-into-law

Sounds like a done deal. Time line not given.

http://www.alipac.us/f12/christie-re...grants-294222/

1. Christie Agrees to In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants ...
   
   www.nytimes.com/.../christie-agrees-to-in-state-tuition-for-undocu...
   by Kirk Semple
   55 mins ago - After his announcement, the State Assembly passed a bill that would ... New Jersey will join at least 16 other states that make in-state tuition ...

http://www.alipac.us/f9/mark-levin-m...3/#post1385660

. . . Mr. Christie said that since both legislative chambers were in session on Thursday, he expected the new bill to pass by the end of the day.
“As soon as it hits my desk, I will sign it,” he said. . .

He signed it Friday afternoon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12/19/new-jersey-democrats-bow-to-christies-asks-on-immigrant-bill/?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z14