Posted on 11/16/2010 4:30:08 PM PST by Bad~Rodeo
Texas A&M University’s student Senate recently approved a bill that would no longer allow illegal immigrants attending the school to be eligible for in-state tuition rates.
Since 2001, illegal immigrants in Texas have qualified for in-state tuition, which offers them a generous discount compared to out-of-state students attending the university. Texas A&M has 49,000 students, and about 300 are illegal immigrants.
But while the student Senate voted 48-21 this month in favor of the bill, S.B. 63-11, the move isn’t sitting well with Student Body President Jacob Robinson.
Robinson, who vetoed the bill, says that it’s up to the state legislature – not the school – to address the problem of illegal immigration.
“This is a state of residency issue and the state needs to address this first,” said Robinson. The >b>student senators voted because state legislators "mentioned the desire to receive feedback from students at Texas institutions -- specifically Texas A&M," said Clark Caperton, student Senate chair of external affairs.
That “desire” hit a nerve when the bill was introduced this month.
Demonstrators took to campus streets and held up signs that said, “Aggies don’t fight Aggies,” and “We don’t choose to be illegal." Many of the demonstrators support proposed federal legislation called the Dream Act -- which would allow immigrant children to remain in the United States to serve in the military or attend college.
Justin Pulliam, student Senator and chairman of Texas Aggie Conservatives, the co-author of the S.B. 63-11 bill, predicts that Dream Act Activists will turn out Wednesday when the bill is brought back onto the floor. Students will have an option to override Robinson’s veto.
“Dream Act Activists are very effective and good at being heard,” Pulliam said. But he says there are others not so
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Student Body President Robinson sounds like Student Body President Obama, injecting his agenda into every decision.
But the issue isn't immigration. It's tuition. So Robinson's attempt to change the subject fails.
“We don’t choose to be illegal."
They are college students and presumably intelligent enough to be aware of their nationality, immigration status, etc.
If one is a Mexican national and elects to remain within the borders of the US, that is in fact a choice.
Unless they are implying that the stork made a second visit, plucked them from their family homes and dropped them in College Station, TX.
“We don’t choose to be illegal.”
Home Invaders don’t choose to be identified as illegal either.
Smart kids. Now they need to get rid of that weenie Student Body President Jacob Robinson.
(P.S. noticed your tagline. Great minds...)
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