Should illegal immigrant students be given free in-state tuition?
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Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !
No.
Nope!
If you nor I can get in-state tuition and we're citizens, why should they? It makes no sense!!
No, but they should get shipped back for free.
then so should every american citizen who is here legaly!
I don't think so. I believe people who do not pay taxes, shouldn't be able to recieve ANY funds for school. If they want to, then they can do so with their untaxed money.
why would illegal imigrants get free tuition, and legal immigrants, or citizens of the us not get free tuition? and why do people htink that illegal immigrants deserve things like free tuition, you seem to be forgetting that they are here illegally, and they are criminals, for breaking the law, and they deserve nothing more that to go back to mexico, and come here legally, then they can get what they need
LMAO. What are they gonna demand next? 5,000 dollars so they can start a family? This is getting rediculous.
absolutely not
I say yes. Its just that the so called americans are sacred. The hispancis are pupulating more than these lame americans.
Illegal anything should be deported. Period!
Yeah, we don't want those valedictorian, scholarship-winning, future scientists and engineers in OUR backyard.
And what's "free" about in-state tuition?
NOOOOOOOOO!
Hell no! They can go back to their own damn country.
Not free tuition, but in-state tuition is a good idea. The more people get educated, the better off we all are. Encouraging all people living in America to get a good education is simply enlightened self-interest which is good for the economy, good for the culture and good for society.
By the way, if these people earn income or spend money in America, they are paying income and sales taxes. American succeeded because it provided people with chances to improve their position in life. Education is the foundation to people improving themselves and their world. I say educate everyone willing to put in the time and effort.
sure, why the heck not. I mean after all that would be completely fair to Citizens and legal immigrants who pinch every penny and scrimp and save to send their children to college and have to pay out of state tuition... sure...
If they qualify they should! Most of these kids call the US home bc they've been raised here, like an American.
Some of my friends who go to college have paid all their school out of their pocket, some don't ask for help, they're getting somewhere in life on their own! I look up to these type of people! =)
Sure. But only after I, a legal citizen, do.
I think they should get an education.
Lesson 1: If you come here illegally you will be deported.
Lesson over.
nope
Not only no but HELL no. My son didn't get any free tuition and your kids won't either. So why should OUR TAX DOLLARS go to pay tuition for someone breaking the law just by being here.
The whole idea of using the tax dollars of tax paying Americans to educate illegals is absurd.
When every American student that wants to go to college gets to go and their tuition is paid for by the government. Then they can fund all the illegals they want.
Nope. I paid my way through college. They can too.
What is their logic? Where do they get the cajones to ask for a free ride when the rest of us have to pay for it? That is just imbecillic reasoning. "I'm illegal, but you should pay for my education"--wtf?! They have schools in their country, they can go there. If they're sh*tty schools, it's up to them to fix that. It's not our problem.
Who cares? Isn't education the key to enlightenment? So they stood before Congress, whoop- de -do ! Gee, things move like lightning around here. Why don't you write your Congressman?
Only if we can supply the same for our own people.
Only if we can too! I am a naturalized citizen and I pay full tuition. Illegal or not, everyone should pay based on educational qualifications, not based on citizen status. Education is absolutely something that should be free...but it doesn't work like that. I say learn English or get your butt deported...If you want to learn more power to you.
No, they shouldn't but I have a strong feeling that congress and the senate will feel completely different about it.
They can get a free education when they get caught selling dope or stealing food and get thrown in jail with the rest of their family.
Where is ICE when you need them. Not only are they admitting that they are here illegally, but are asking for benefits, Is this a great country or what
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