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What happens to a DREAM Act deferred?
More than 25,000 undocumented teens graduate each year from high schools in California, according to UCLA Labor Studies Prof. Kent Wong, a stalwart researcher and speaker indeed.
We're normally pleased when young people stay in school and don't drop out. It is quite an accomplishment. Those twenty-five thousand who get through school despite their risky immigration status—and that of their families—typically have to jump through more flaming hoops than most of us ever did to get an education.
They lack immigration papers, those twenty-five thousand. But they have one piece of paper, the high school diploma, that is justly celebrated throughout our culture.
It's nice to imagine that some kids who finish high school will go on to college. But a California court ruled this year that those twenty-five thousand must pay the much higher nonresident tuition rates, effectively barring most of them from enrolling at California colleges and universities. And then Arnold Schwarzenegger, flexing his super-veto-powers yesterday, killed the state's version of the DREAM Act that would have enabled those few who do go to receive scholarships and financial aid from the state schools.
So, are our borders a little safer tonight from that influx of dangerous illegal people bent on having their kids go through high school and then skate through college paying a measly $7,500 per year of tuition instead of the $28,000 paid by nonresidents? Sure they are. Does it make sense that a kid whose parents brought her to California illegally when she was a baby, who grew up in California, who finished high school in California, should be called a "nonresident"? If you say so, Governor. Thanks for doing your part to help our nation's youth realize their potential.
What happens to a DREAM Act deferred?
October 2, 2008
More than 25,000 undocumented teens graduate each year from high schools in California, according to UCLA Labor Studies Prof. Kent Wong, a stalwart researcher and speaker indeed.We're normally pleased when young people stay in school and don't drop out. It is quite an accomplishment. Those twenty-five thousand who get through school despite their risky immigration status—and that of their families—typically have to jump through more flaming hoops than most of us ever did to get an education.
They lack immigration papers, those twenty-five thousand. But they have one piece of paper, the high school diploma, that is justly celebrated throughout our culture.
It's nice to imagine that some kids who finish high school will go on to college. But a California court ruled this year that those twenty-five thousand must pay the much higher nonresident tuition rates, effectively barring most of them from enrolling at California colleges and universities. And then Arnold Schwarzenegger, flexing his super-veto-powers yesterday, killed the state's version of the DREAM Act that would have enabled those few who do go to receive scholarships and financial aid from the state schools.
So, are our borders a little safer tonight from that influx of dangerous illegal people bent on having their kids go through high school and then skate through college paying a measly $7,500 per year of tuition instead of the $28,000 paid by nonresidents? Sure they are. Does it make sense that a kid whose parents brought her to California illegally when she was a baby, who grew up in California, who finished high school in California, should be called a "nonresident"? If you say so, Governor. Thanks for doing your part to help our nation's youth realize their potential.
Posted by Bruce Jensen on October 2, 2008 | Comments (2)
October 3, 2008
In response to: What happens to a DREAM Act deferred?
Mary commented:
In response to: What happens to a DREAM Act deferred?
Mary commented:
Bruce, it's not just colleges that are discriminating. Several years ago, under pressure from anti-immigrant groups, the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo announced scholarship money would no longer be awarded to noncitizens (permanent residents can drop dead, too)! A former page at my library was reserve champion in the rodeo art contest back in the late 1990s. He was oldest of several children and born in Mexico. He was not allowed to collect the $15,000 scholarship money.
October 7, 2008
In response to: What happens to a DREAM Act deferred?
Cecilia Dominguez commented:
In response to: What happens to a DREAM Act deferred?
Cecilia Dominguez commented:
Muy buena informacion acerca de lo que pasa en nuestro pais.
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