“Suddenly they could no longer afford the education they were eager to work for. “
But he has no problem taking the tax dollars from US/state citizens to bump a citizen from getting the education that he, too, has worked for. Take that up with your mother who decided she would simply move to the head of the line.
My maternal grandfather came to the US in 1910. At that time, he was considered a subject of the crown, since Ireland was still a province of England. We’ve got all of his papers. Maternal grandmother was first generation Irish. Don’t know much about the paternal side. Grandfather came down to Michigan from Quebec. I know he died in 1948. My paternal grandmother died before I was born; she was a first generation Irish.