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.