“The students are pinning hopes on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and his plan to reintroduce in November a bipartisan federal proposal that would allow undocumented kids to study or join the military to earn permanent legal status.”
An Republican who signs onto this ought to consider his career over. For that matter, any Democrat as well.
Illegal Alien Minors demand the the Federal Government rob taxpayers on their behalf.
“undocumented California college students and supporters say they will appeal to Congress for help with their predicament”
When he gave the decision for United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259 (1990) Chief Justice Rehnquist said that “the defendant in this case lacked a sufficient relationship with the U.S. to call upon the U.S. Constitution for protection”
The illegal alien “students” also “lack(ed) a sufficient relationship with the U.S. to call upon the U.S.” Congress...
Round them up and send them home. They are not Americans and not only are they taking the slots that should be going to American citizens but they’re driving up the cost of a college education by creating artificial demand.
Send them all home along with their parents and tell them to fix their own countries.
But that's not what they want.
Follow the money.
They don't want to pay for their education. They want access to the Federal Student Aid system, including access to Pell/SEOG and other grants, subsidized loans, etc. They want preferential tuition rates (over other international students and over out-of-state U.S. citizens, at public institutions). They want preferential access, through affirmative action programs.
Mexican universities place hefty surcharges on tuition rates for international students. Why can't our schools do the same?
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See the fifth paragraph, mentions the IIRIRA.