In-State Tuition Bill Defeated In Mass.
Massachusetts House members last night decisively defeated a controversial bill to extend in-state tuition rates at public colleges to illegal aliens. The defeat was a surprise to advocates for in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens, since they expected the bill to pass easily. However, advocates against the bill organized a strong phone call, letter writing & e-mail campaign to legislators. Apparently, the effort succeeded, as the bill was roundly defeated.
Representative Marie Parente, a Milford Democrat, who voted against the bill said, "You're going to educate people to take our own technical jobs, the ones our students need?" She said immigrants who are here illegally should not be given advantages over residents who struggle as she did when she was a child. Parente was a foster child and attended college later in life because she could not afford to go right out of high school.
The bill would have granted in-state tuition rates for illegals who completed high school in Massachusetts & had been here 3 years (illegally). The student would also have to sign a paper stating that he/she would seek U.S. citiizenship (wink, wink).
We applaud the Massachusetts legislators in defeating this bill. There are already too many states which allow in-state tuition rates for illegals. In effect, illegals who break our laws in the first place by coming into the country illegally are further rewarded over our own natural born citizens. This is crazy.
An American student who lives in a state next to a state that provides in-state tuition for illegals, must pay the out-of-state tuition rate - usual double the in-state rate. But an illegal, who has no allegiance to this country, who broke this country's laws in the first place, is given the much cheaper rate.
Why do some legislators & illegal alien advocates put more concern & effort into the illegals amongst us then to their own citizens? They show compassion & concern for the illegals. That's nice, but it is misdirected. The compassion & concern should be toward Americans who cannot afford college.
Providing in-state tuition is really contrary to Federal law. There is such a thing called an F-1 student visa. A student in another country who wishes to go to an American college must first apply for an F-1 visa. It is a long process. The college the student wishes to attend must prove that he/she has been accepted into it. The student must pay the full cost of tuition. If approved, the student is allowed into the USA to attend the college. Upon completion of studies, the student must return to his/her country.
The illegal student in this country has in effect cheated the process, cut in front of the line. No need for lengthy F-1 visa processing - just illegally cross the border, then continue the cheating by going around the F-1 visa requirements. The illegal by definition is a cheater - not waitng his/her turn to enter the country, by-passing the F-1 requirements, phony drivers license, phony social security cards, phony this, phony that, not paying taxes. It's time to drop the hammer on them, not coddle them as their advocates want to do.
Representative Marie Parente, a Milford Democrat, who voted against the bill said, "You're going to educate people to take our own technical jobs, the ones our students need?" She said immigrants who are here illegally should not be given advantages over residents who struggle as she did when she was a child. Parente was a foster child and attended college later in life because she could not afford to go right out of high school.
The bill would have granted in-state tuition rates for illegals who completed high school in Massachusetts & had been here 3 years (illegally). The student would also have to sign a paper stating that he/she would seek U.S. citiizenship (wink, wink).
We applaud the Massachusetts legislators in defeating this bill. There are already too many states which allow in-state tuition rates for illegals. In effect, illegals who break our laws in the first place by coming into the country illegally are further rewarded over our own natural born citizens. This is crazy.
An American student who lives in a state next to a state that provides in-state tuition for illegals, must pay the out-of-state tuition rate - usual double the in-state rate. But an illegal, who has no allegiance to this country, who broke this country's laws in the first place, is given the much cheaper rate.
Why do some legislators & illegal alien advocates put more concern & effort into the illegals amongst us then to their own citizens? They show compassion & concern for the illegals. That's nice, but it is misdirected. The compassion & concern should be toward Americans who cannot afford college.
Providing in-state tuition is really contrary to Federal law. There is such a thing called an F-1 student visa. A student in another country who wishes to go to an American college must first apply for an F-1 visa. It is a long process. The college the student wishes to attend must prove that he/she has been accepted into it. The student must pay the full cost of tuition. If approved, the student is allowed into the USA to attend the college. Upon completion of studies, the student must return to his/her country.
The illegal student in this country has in effect cheated the process, cut in front of the line. No need for lengthy F-1 visa processing - just illegally cross the border, then continue the cheating by going around the F-1 visa requirements. The illegal by definition is a cheater - not waitng his/her turn to enter the country, by-passing the F-1 requirements, phony drivers license, phony social security cards, phony this, phony that, not paying taxes. It's time to drop the hammer on them, not coddle them as their advocates want to do.
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