Foxx: illegal immigrants should not get in-state tuition
The UNC system caused a stir when System President Erskine Bowles announced a study of whether in-state tuition should be available to illegal immigrants.
Virginia Foxx, a Republican Congresswoman form Winston-Salem, thinks this would be a really bad idea and wrote Bowles a letter that reads in part:
As such, the policy which is under review by you would result in a direct violation of federal law. Giving special treatment to illegal aliens is fundamentally unjust to both North Carolinians and legal immigrants who have invested a great deal to comply with our immigration laws or obtain legal citizenship.
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So if the UNC system were to make a decision before the short legislative session that begins in May and that decision were to give in-state tuition to the children of undocumented workers, how much of the legislative session might be taken up with the honorables debating whether to over-turn that policy? Given the state's current political climate and the impending 2008 elections, I'm thinking "a lot" is the right answer.
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The word is ILLEGAL.
If someone breaks into your house to you call them undocumented?
Posted on January 31, 2008 12:56 PM
What do you call someone who breaks into your house, cleans it, takes out the garbage and fixes your kids' school lunches?
Posted on January 31, 2008 1:00 PM
I agree with Foxx.
Here is the list of UNC governors. Call them and express your opposition.
Posted on January 31, 2008 1:01 PM
Mark, best comeback of the month!
Foxx's certainty not withstanding, there is dispute about whether "benefit" means cash grants and payments or if the term includes tuition discounts. Nonetheless, other states avoid even getting entangled in this by simply not asking about the immigration status of the applicant. Students are only asked to provide proof that they reside in the state.
Posted on January 31, 2008 2:20 PM