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Let’s put Cap on tuition bill
By Howie Carr | Friday, March 19, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Did you ever notice that on the Internet, when someone starts using all capital letters, you can safely assume that you are in the cyber-presence of a crank?
Meet Gov. Deval Patrick: crank.
But then, in his online chat with Herald readers, he was once again defending the indefensible - in-state (in effect, free) tuition for illegal aliens. Here’s what he said:
“I have advocated that aliens who were raised here and educated in our public schools - AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF STRAIGHTENING OUT THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS - should pay the same tuition as the kids they graduated from high schools with.”
This, of course, is the Big Lie - I’m tempted to say BIG LIE, but let’s keep this discussion calm. The moonbats claim that this latest giveaway would apply only to aliens who’ve been squatting here for a few years.
But that’s not what the bill says. Deval can use as many caps as he wants, but the actual bill makes no distinction between the long-term freeloaders and the ones who just forded the Rio Grande last week.
Let’s go straight to the House bill, filed by Haitian-born tax deadbeat Marie St. Fleur. In the Senate, it used to be sponsored by Sen. Tony Galluccio, (D-Billerica) House of Correction, until he got a snootful of Michelob Ultra Brite.
The proposed giveaway would apply to any illegal alien who “has achieved graduation from a high school in the commonwealth or attained the equivalent thereof.”
What part of “the equivalent thereof” do you not understand, Deval? I mean, you went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so you must have done very well on the SATs and the LSATs, right?
I know, there are “only” a few hundred “kids” looking for this latest free ride. I’m sure they said the same thing in Texas too. The latest numbers are . . . 12,000 illegals paying in-state tuition in the Lone Star State. Military members don’t get the in-state nod, but illegals do.
On Wednesday, the Cape Cod Times ran a story about a new “movement” among illegals for in-state tuition. The first illegal they interviewed admitted he already is paying in-state tuition at UMass-Dartmouth “because he was in the process of applying for a visa when he signed up for classes.”
In other words, some illegals are already getting a free ride, even though the Legislature is on record as opposing it. It’s getting tougher and tougher for me to keep from hitting the Caps Lock key.
“It’s like a civil rights movement,” the illegal told the paper.
You know who really needs a civil rights movement? Students from New Hampshire, especially ones whose parents work and pay income taxes in Massachusetts. They’re citizens, they obey the law, and they pay taxes, and it appears they don’t have the same rights as illegals, who do none of the above.
What’s that line in “West Side Story”? Everything free in America. At least if you’re illegal.