California In-State Tuition for Illegals Must Stop!
Written by on November 03, 2010, 01:33 PM
College is extremely expensive and is skyrocketing in price every single year; many U.S. students and their families endure severe financial hardship, even emptying bank accounts, in order to pay for college. While the government does little to help struggling U.S. families, they do create laws to make sure illegal aliens can take advantage of our U.S. universities.
In California, a 2001 state law (AB 540) mandates that illegal aliens who attend three years of high school in California get to receive in-state tuition if they attend a CA university. The difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition is about $19,000.00 each year!
Legal U.S. students from outside of California have to pay $19,000.00 more per year to attend California universities than illegal aliens do! Illegal aliens are not even citizens of the United States – how can they be considered “residents of California?”
In addition, illegal aliens have already freeloaded off of California taxpayers; taxpayers have already funded their elementary, middle, and high school education, why should Californians also have to subsidize their college tuition?
The California Supreme Court is currently reviewing a lawsuit that challenges AB 540. The Supreme Court must do the right thing and reverse this egregious law. To give illegal aliens the significant privilege of in-state tuition, a privilege we do not even grant to all citizens of this country, is an absolute travesty of justice.
We cannot treat illegal aliens better than we treat citizens of this nation; illegal aliens are receiving discounted tuition at top universities while U.S. citizens and their families are going deep into debt and spending money they’ve saved their entire lives to obtain the same opportunities.
In addition to serving as a “slap in the face” to out-of state students who are granted less rights than illegal aliens, AB 540 also puts a crippling, unnecessary (yet avoidable) burden on California tax payers during these rough economic times.
The Los Angeles Times estimates that approximately 25,000 illegal aliens attend California universities and receive in-state tuition. Kris Kobach, an attorney arguing against AB 540, estimates that these illegal aliens cost California—and its taxpayers—more than $200 million dollars annually!
Our government must start recognizing that illegal aliens are criminals. They should be deported and punished, not granted immense privileges at the cost of legal, hardworking U.S. citizens. We punish all other types of lawbreakers and yet we reward illegal aliens, granting them rights we don’t even offer to all U.S. citizens!
In California, a 2001 state law (AB 540) mandates that illegal aliens who attend three years of high school in California get to receive in-state tuition if they attend a CA university. The difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition is about $19,000.00 each year!
Legal U.S. students from outside of California have to pay $19,000.00 more per year to attend California universities than illegal aliens do! Illegal aliens are not even citizens of the United States – how can they be considered “residents of California?”
In addition, illegal aliens have already freeloaded off of California taxpayers; taxpayers have already funded their elementary, middle, and high school education, why should Californians also have to subsidize their college tuition?
The California Supreme Court is currently reviewing a lawsuit that challenges AB 540. The Supreme Court must do the right thing and reverse this egregious law. To give illegal aliens the significant privilege of in-state tuition, a privilege we do not even grant to all citizens of this country, is an absolute travesty of justice.
We cannot treat illegal aliens better than we treat citizens of this nation; illegal aliens are receiving discounted tuition at top universities while U.S. citizens and their families are going deep into debt and spending money they’ve saved their entire lives to obtain the same opportunities.
In addition to serving as a “slap in the face” to out-of state students who are granted less rights than illegal aliens, AB 540 also puts a crippling, unnecessary (yet avoidable) burden on California tax payers during these rough economic times.
The Los Angeles Times estimates that approximately 25,000 illegal aliens attend California universities and receive in-state tuition. Kris Kobach, an attorney arguing against AB 540, estimates that these illegal aliens cost California—and its taxpayers—more than $200 million dollars annually!
Our government must start recognizing that illegal aliens are criminals. They should be deported and punished, not granted immense privileges at the cost of legal, hardworking U.S. citizens. We punish all other types of lawbreakers and yet we reward illegal aliens, granting them rights we don’t even offer to all U.S. citizens!
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