[Irene Adler]

"...there is much merit to the argument that they are better candidates for such aid than a student who will rush back to "my country" after soaking up our education and our education dollars."

I have taught on the college level for more than 20 years and have worked with scholarships for about a dozen years. In my experience, foreign students (actually it's usually the students' governments) pay full freight, and then some, at U.S. universities and colleges. They are a money maker for higher education rather than a loss leader, which is (in my estimation) the single biggest reason why universities and colleges seek them so assiduously. They definitely don't "soak up our education dollars".

[Irene Adler]

I should say also that when I graduated from high school, more than 30 years ago, I wanted to attend Northwestern, too, but my parents couldn't afford it, either. So, I graduated from a state university, and guess what, my life has turned out just fine. Liberal journalists are so quick to write a whiney news story when some minority person doesn't get something he or she wants, but that's simply something that happens to all of us during the course of our lives. We get over it; we do the best we can with what we have, and we move on.

[TheCrusader]

"In my experience, foreign students (actually it's usually the students' governments) pay full freight, and then some, at U.S. universities and colleges."

It never ceases to amaze me just how far people will go to foster their agenda, even to the point of deceiving others to "prove" their little ideals. For the record, sir, these are not "foreign students", (which infers foreign exchange students or foreignors with student visas). These are

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

, what part of that don't you understand?