North Carolina Community Colleges Required to Admit Undocumented Immigrants
North Carolina’s community colleges must admit illegal immigrants as long as they are 18 years old and high school graduates, a legal decision that reverses a 2004 rule that gave campuses the option to say no.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
So much for turning a blind eye to illegal immigration, now we have to pay for their college education. Talk about having absolutely no regard for public opinion or US laws. I hope that when “comprehensive” immigration reform finally passes that the people who championed rules like these have their personal fortunes stripped from them to compensate the American public for the burdens they are forced to bear as they support illegal immigrants.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Do you have data that supports your claims or are you just content to be the house troll for the Diverse Issues - Diverse Podium blog?
November 30th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
“Do you have data that supports your claims or are you just content to be the house troll for the Diverse Issues - Diverse Podium blog?”
What kind of data are you looking for? Data that shows that federal and state funds pay for community colleges? Data showing how much US taxpayers pay to support illegal immigrants on state and federal programs? Polls showing that US citizens don’t want to pay for illegals to attend college at taxpayers’ expense? I’ll get data for you, just let me know what you want.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:20 am
How about data that is affiliated with your comments versus loads of racist bigotry?
From http://www.charlotte.com/politics/story/381440.html :
“Decision won’t cost N.C.
Community college executives said the admissions guidelines won’t cost the state. Illegal immigrants must pay out-of-state tuition, $7,465 for a full class load, which is more than the actual cost of providing the education, $5,375, the officials said.They also emphasized that under the old policy, with most schools admitting undocumented applicants, 340 of the 270,000 students last year — or about one-tenth of 1 percent — were illegal immigrants. If that figure quadrupled, the system could handle it, Sullivan said.”
December 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Eric, the article said: “The Civitas Institute, which reported the change in a news release Tuesday, said it may cost the state an additional $6 million to $8 million annually to implement the rule change.” The article counters that students pay $2100 more than the cost of tuition but that is likely calculated from the cost to educate someone who is here legally. The administrators did not deny that the extra costs that the Civitas Institute projected would be incurred.
Costs aside, illegal immigrants should not receive the same benefits as US citizens. Allowing them to enjoy the benefits of citizenship without taking on the responsibilities of citizenship is unfair to law abiding citizens and costly to taxpayers.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
We also do not think about the students who grow up in the state, who have been here illegally since elementary school, they go to high school here, and then they are barred from pursuing their dreams of attaining a college degree as well as contributing to society. I think every individual who makes this country their home deserves the right to pursue higher education.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
its good that now in days they worry about undocumented people going to college
May 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
how ignorant of racist people that dont approve that undocumented people should go 2 school like mr.lloyd hansen seriously mr. hansen their doin u no damage why should u care they have the right of a better brighter future
May 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
i think that each indivisual shoud have go to college depending on their educations status and need. If people want to continue their eduation then let them.