University of Michigan student protesters demand tuition equality for illegal immigrants

Ann Arbor News, ^ | Dec 13, 2012 | Kellie Woodhouse

[moonshinner_09]

With red tape over their mouths, roughly 100 University of Michigan students wearing maize T-shirts pushed their chairs aside and sat on the ground during a Board of Regents meeting Thursday.

The students were silently protesting against current tuition practices at the university, which don't offer illegal immigrants who attended Michigan high schools in-state tuition. For more than a year, a large group of students have petitioned U-M for tuition equality.

"What's happening isn't right. Undocumented students unfairly have a barrier," said John D'Adamo, a U-M junior and a member of the U-M Coalition for Tuition Equality who protested during the 4 p.m. regents meeting. "They're often discouraged from coming to the University of Michigan."

Tuition equality would allow illegal immigrants who attended Michigan high schools to attend the college for in-state rates, which are $12,994 for underclassmen this year. Currently, illegal immigrants would pay $39,122, the out-of-state rate for underclassmen.

[publius911]

More proof, as if we needed any, that the parasites who have never paid any net income taxes, and probably never will, will support any and all expenditure of taxes paid for by the working citizens who DO pay lots of net taxes.

Until that irritating 14th Amendment is suddenly "rediscovered."

Neither Congress nor the president nor individuals can create 'exceptions' which pretend to make "inequality" equal.

[Robwin]

Give them what they want BUT charge everybody whatever it cost to educate a student at this college per semester hour. No subsidies.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Proving only that you do not need to be intelligent to get into college these days!

[SECURE AMERICA]

As these criminals are not citizens of the State nor even this Country why would the school allow then to attend at rates reserved for citizens of that state??

[CSM]

Some animals are more equal than others.

[muawiyah]

The university at Madison does tend to suck up all the surplus leftwingtards throughout the Midwest ~ which is a good thing ~ for everybody else!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks moonshinner_09.

"What's happening isn't right. Undocumented students unfairly have a barrier," said John D'Adamo, a U-M junior and a member of the U-M Coalition for Tuition Equality who protested during the 4 p.m. regents meeting. "They're often discouraged from coming to the University of Michigan."

The unconstitutional quota system remains in effect at U of M, because its administrators are above the law. BTW Johnetta, that's not "undocumented students", that's "illegal aliens" iow, criminals. But I'm 100% in favor of your giving up your spot to one of them, since you are a parasite, and the "illegal" probably actually earns a living.