Unless, of course... 
you vote Denmocrat.
Never fear... 
change is coming!
Posted on 06/02/2008 1:43:30 PM PDT by MissouriConservative
FRESNO, Calif. — The valedictorian at Fresno's Bullard High School won't be attending college in the United States this fall because he's scheduled to be deported.
Arthur Mkoyan's 4.0 grade-point average qualified him to enter one of the state's top universities. But the 17-year-old and his mother have been ordered back to Armenia after their last appeal for asylum failed.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And to think all those illegal mexicans are getting a free ride..
Tsedesoutioun (so long!) ...
Smart Guy can apply for a Student Visa.
To think of the numbers that could be deported and the government picks the one applying for asylum....lol.
Na na na na. Na na na na. Hey hey hey. Goodbye.
Adios, mofo.
ZERO TOLERANCE!
Unless, of course... you vote Denmocrat.
Never fear... change is coming!
Good. He can be the smartest kid in that third world sewer when he gets home.
Once he is back in Armenia, Arthur could return to the United States on a student visa. Or he could ask a member of Congress to introduce a private bill on his behalf to grant him legal residency, Silverman said.
Arthur contacted Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein for help weeks ago. Feinstein has introduced private bills in the past in an effort to grant legal status to individuals.
Feinstein’s office is looking into Arthur’s case, said Claire Bowyer, Feinstein’s deputy press secretary.
Private bills are rarely introduced and often don’t pass, according to Feinstein’s office. Once a bill is introduced, deportation is halted. If it passes, the applicant receives a green card. In some cases, the bill allows a parent to obtain legal residency along with the child.
“Arthur Mkoyan represents another reason why Congress needs to pass the Dream Act,” Feinstein said in a prepared statement. “It is in our nation’s interest to provide talented students the incentive to take this path toward being responsible and law-abiding members of our society.”
Except that need-based financial aid is off limits to international students. And, if he's already illegally present, I doubt he has the tens of thousands to pony up each year for college.
This is one reason why the illegals want amnesty so badly: the federal, state, and institutional financial aid bonanza!
Beat it, smart guy.
Call me crazy, but... I’d be in favor of granting a visa for someone who has demonstrated talent and the ability to CONTRIBUTE to society, rather than just be a drain.
I say: Let’s take ALL their smart people.
Unfortunately, this is not a grey area issue. We either are going to hold EVERYONE to the standards or we are not. This is a shame. I hope that he can get back in legally. But, he has to go.
Why? Don’t we have control over who we let in?
Why? Don’t we have control over who we let in?
This is idiotic. Armenians are not the problem.
Private bills are rarely introduced and often don’t pass, according to Feinstein’s office.
Somebody needs to tatto the phrase "Bills of Attainder" to Dianne FineSwine's forehead so she'll see it every day. That, and redecorate every room of her mansion with wallpaper that is covered with a large print version of the US Constitution, with the Second Amendment highlighted and bolded.
Arthur Mkoyan's 4.0 grade-point average qualified him to enter one of the state's top universities. But the 17-year-old and his mother have been ordered back to Armenia after their last appeal for asylum failed.
Throw all the bums out!
“Why? Don’t we have control over who we let in?”
Sure we do, Tim. LOL! 8>}
Uh, so then, you're saying the anti-illegal immigration push really IS about race, after all??
Illegal immigration is a problem that exists without regard to race. The instant you begin to use race or ethincity to delinate between illegal immigrants who either ARE or ARE NOT a problem, then you cross over into the verbotenland of stone-cold bigotry, so you'd better get straight exactly which side of that concertina wire you wanna be on. There's no riding the fence on this one.
LOL Point taken... Try this:
Shouldn't we have control over who we let in? Give me the smart, hard working people.... I'll build a better America.
Uh... no... I'm saying, it's about ability, talent, skill... Who can CONTRIBUTE vs who will be a DRAIN.
Here's my rule.... score >1500 on SAT, or >33 on ACT, or somehow manage a 4.0 in an accredited High School.... I'll find room for you.
Amen!
This might have been one of the the best and brightest but, he’ll have to wait.
“Here’s my rule.... score >1500 on SAT, or >33 on ACT, or somehow manage a 4.0 in an accredited High School.... I’ll find room for you.”
Unless they want to attend these schools.
And... here’s a slightly less geek-favoring rule: Find a way to PAY your way here, and prove that you have a skill and a job when you arrive: I’ll find room.
This is one of the problems created by uncontrolled MASS, ILLEGAL immigration: We’ve lost site of the benefits of taking in GOOD people/workers from abroad..... in a legal fashion. Let’s speed the process for those who will help PULL the wagon.
It’s not a matter of letting smart ones in. What happens if that ‘standard’ morphs to race, beauty, sex, etc. ? What would you say then? As far as I’m concerned if they were in this country illegally or here under some other ‘pretense’ he STOLE that education from us Citizens. He was about to steal some more, potentially. No sympathies here.
That's code for "We can't lower our admission standards low enough to allow minority applicants, and still meet the new Supreme Court guidelines"...
Despicable.
Ok..ok... I'll allow "beautiful" females in too.
So... we should have told Einstein to stay home?
... when his mother fled a crumbling Eastern Bloc country for the US, and applied for asylum...
Look... we now have some data on who this person is, and what his abilities are. That deserves a look.
"MERIT BASED ADMISSION"
Wow...I'm shocked that people here on FR don't support that.
Yes. Despite what you here about job talent markets here, the universities at grad schools are literally choked with forein students. I know this first hand.
forein —— foreign.....
Yes... I know they are. I say, let's KEEP them here. Most of them WANT to stay. They love this country and don't want to go back to the crap-holes they came from. The United States, as a whole, benefits when we keep talent here.
If he’s currently here legally he has a path to citizenship and higher education that starts at the nearest Army recruiter.
I think, it's more a desire for some sort of moral consistency. I have no such problem. For me? I WANT Chemical Engineers and Physicist...
Strawberry pickers? Not so much. Anyway, I HATE strawberries. :-)
Here - hear
Asylum was denied. See:
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/637728.html
Not sure why they haven’t started normal citizenship application process after all these years. They had work VISA’s when they came according to the wife who appeared on Ray Appleton’s show KMJ, Fresno today(Monday).
Show should be available here soon:
http://www.kmj580.com/kmjpodcasts.html?pollId=202
OK....but technically they became illegal immigrants when their appeal was denied and their work VISA’s were long expired. Just sayin’ ;-)
According to the brief article, he was here legally up util the time his last appeal for amnesty was denied. That makes his education legitimate, in my eyes.
Um technically I don’t think so, from the story:
A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they were given an extension
bttt
2/3rds right....father is in custody in Arizona, he was not granted an “extension”. Father arrived 2 years before wife and kid...sort of a different case. Just wondering why they waited 15 years to address their status, and why it takes 15 years for the Feds to resolve their status.
Sure we have control over who comes in. But that is not the issue. He has to “go” before he can “come back.”
Moot issue on the basis that the kid shouldn’t have been here in the first place.
Send ‘em ALL home.
I believe I had a phrase qualifier in my response something on the order of “here under false pretenses”. The way things look to me the ‘asylum’ claim may have been without merit. In that case, he was here under false pretenses and ‘illegally’ for that matter.....
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