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California Dream Act
The State of California wants to tax its residents in order to provide Cal Grant sand fee waivers to illegal aliens attending Community Colleges. Illegal aliens already enjoy the privilege of only paying in-state tuition rates.
According to the San Jose Mercury News in its editorial:
The "California Dream Act," SB 160 by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, would extend eligibility for Cal Grants and community college fee waivers to undocumented students who've attended a state high school for three years; these students already qualify for in-state tuition but not for state or federal aid.This is a good investment for the state. Brought across the border illegally by their parents, these young people grew up in California. They'll work in California, pay taxes, use services and raise children. Whether they manage to become legal citizens or not, they aren't going away. With a small investment, the state can help swell the ranks of programmers, nurses and technicians.
There are a few problems with this so called "Dream Act," first of which why shouldn't California focus on educating its youth who are not illegal aliens first? The piece also goes on about how California will hit a shortage of college educated workers; how are you going to guarantee that they will stay in California rather than move someplace where the cost of living is more conducive.
They also try to gain support by calling it an investment, when in reality it is a liability. Investments are things like stocks, bonds and real estate, not someone else's education. I can accept that a person paying for their own education, or of their children, as being a kind of investment, but not when they are forced to pay for the education of someone else's children, especially people who have violated our nation's laws.
With no access to state or federal aid, undocumented students often don't see college as a realistic goal. Some get private scholarships or work their way through - an estimated 1,000 undocumented students attend University of California or California State University campuses - but only the most determined complete a degree.
Question for law enforcement: If there are illegal aliens known to be in the colleges and universities, why are they not being rounded up and deported?
The collapse of the federal immigration bill killed a federal version of the Dream Act which included the promise of green-card eligibility for undocumented youths who complete two years of college or military service.
Now part of this last bit includes something I could agree with: Legal status to those serving in the Armed Forces for those youth who were brought here illegally by their parents. I would even say that if they serve a four year enlistment, putting them on the fast-track to citizenship, but they have to complete the four years first to counter-balance their lack of legal status, and must not have any criminal history aside from their status as illegal aliens to enter the Armed Forces. This would be in keeping with policies that have existed recruiting people into the military who want to immigrate to the United States without showing undo favoritism to illegal aliens. Illegal aliens should not be given any legal status simply for completing two years of college at tax payer expense.
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