Posted on 05/15/2008 10:42:26 AM PDT by NCDragon
The new president of the state's community college system has planted himself in the doorways of the system's 58 campuses, barring illegal immigrants from seeking degrees.
Scott Ralls' stance may be politically popular -- both major-party candidates for governor favor a ban -- but it's neither necessary nor humane. North Carolina should stand for something better than having one of the nation's toughest policies on educating illegal immigrants.
So let the community colleges reopen their doors to the relatively few people involved in this needless dispute. And get on with the job of upgrading our state's workforce and broadening the horizons of young people whose immigration status, in most cases, is not under their control, since they came here as children. They've gone through the public school system -- as is their right -- and graduated from high school. Now they wish to better themselves but find the state barring the most likely path, its excellent system of community colleges.
It's not as if some binding legal judgment requires the system to change its existing policy, which for several years has allowed admitting illegal immigrants.
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Have you noticed how many editorials for local papers are written in this way: “Everyone else is going to think we’re a bunch of hicks!”?
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Obviously the idiots at the paper don't read their own blather.
If I recall correctly, the decision to bar illegals stipulates that those illegal aliens currently attending college can finish.
So there is nobody left that needs the doors reopened.
I just don’t understand how people this clueless are able to form complete sentences.
It is called stealing, go back home and get a degree and while they are there, find a job and don't come back.
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