The Pols at it Again with No Reasonable, or Reasoned, Debate in the Whole Fray
Posted in Immigration
Dec. 2, 2007 at 07:07
by BrendaBee
The head lines read: "Candidates rip admissions ruling" and Gubernatorial hopefuls want community colleges closed to illegal immigrants"
The debates seems to have a lot of misinformation passing around that those making the noise should know better. Many are saying incorrectly that illegal immigrants are getting our tax dollars in the form of grants to attend school. Really now, how silly. Illegals do not apply for any state aid of any kind for fear of being caught and sent back across our borders people!
It is true that illegals use our tax dollars when they send their children to our tax funded public schools, and it is true that illegals use our tax dollars when they are forced to use our hospital emergency rooms when they are ill, but grants for higher education, I don't think so. And the ruling that North Carolina community colleges must accept illegal immigrants does not carry with it a ruling that makes them eligible for state or federal education grants.
While blogging on this same issue a fellow blogger asked a very good question I thought. "So if the Supremes ruled in 1982 that states must allow illegal immigrant children to attend public school from K-12, why not have citizenship and naturalization as part of their required curriculum and grant them citizenship upon graduation from high school? Then they can go to college as a citizen."
I would answer that question if I might: Why not make citizenship and naturalization a requirement for graduation? There is only one slight issue here that would make such a law rather limited in scope ( something like the community college issue is limited in scope!): most of the children in K-12 are citizens by virtue of having been born in the United States so this requirement wouldn't affect that many people.
The community colleges on the other hand are for older people who are merely trying to get an education and make better lives for themselves and their families. These people will I don't doubt make a bee line to the court houses to apply for citizenship as soon as they can. Right now of course if they would apply they run the risk of being sent back where they came from. We could of course make it a law that any illegal immigrant who graduates from a institution of higher learning of any kind would have the unchallenged right to apply for citizenship. A law like this would do a lot of good I would think.
But then of course I am just a lowly blogger and and elderly old battleax at that so what do I know? BB
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