Not quite. You don't have to be a Texas HS grad. You can have a GED in Texas. No age requirement. And you don'tg have to apply for US citizenship, just do so when you are eligible to do so. Here is an excerpt from the Texas Dream Act
SECTION 2. Section 54.052, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:M.
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, an individual shall be classified as a Texas resident until the individual establishes a residence outside this state if the individual resided with the individual's parent, guardian, or conservator while attending a public or private high school in this state and:
(1) graduated from a public or private high school or received the equivalent of a high school diploma in this state;
(2) resided in this state for at least three years as of the date the person graduated from high school or received the equivalent of a high school diploma;
(3) registers as an entering student in an institution of higher education not earlier than the 2001 fall semester; and
(4) provides to the institution an affidavit stating that the individual will file an application to become a permanent resident at the earliest opportunity the individual is eligible to do so.
Under these criteria, you could be a 25 year old illegal who entered this country at age 22, resided in Texas for three years, got a GED, and applied for in-state tuition at a Texas state college. And how is the requirement to file an application to be a permaenent resident enforced? Who decides when an individual is eligible to do so? Normally, such applications for LPR are filed in the country of origin. You don't enter the US illegally and then file for permanent residency. Illegal entry disqualifies you. And finally, it is illegal for an illegal alien to work in the US and it is illegal for an employer to hire them.
The “have a heart” was lame, but has some relivance because the students in question did not come here on their own, so why should they be made to suffer because their parents did wrong. See the point?
So what should we do for those poor children who don't want to go to college. Should we provide them with free vocational training? Giving illegal youth de facto legal status is deeply unfair to those immigrant parents and their children who obeyed the law. And once you start handing out amnesties, you inevitably create more incentives for illegal entry. Moreover, allowing illegal students full access to Texas’s university system while making them pay out-of-state tuition like every other non-legal resident of Texas — such as citizens from Arkansas or Oklahoma — hardly constitutes a denial of education, as Perry implies
There was damn little Texas voter public opposition to 1403. What about the democratic process is hard for you to grasp? Does democracy only apply when it verifies your narrow perspective?
Per your exaggerated emphasis on “GED”. Maybe in Virginia (likely not) you can get into the best colleges with a GED, its a mighty hill to climb here in Texas. Just more smoke you think will blind folks to the reality you oppose.
What Texas has been doing, even “In-State Tuition” has been working and adding to our success while most other States are sharing the basement, proves we must be doing something right. That proof is in the pudding.