Plan to Extend In-State Tuition to Illegal Immigrants Raises Concerns
Lawmakers were surprised this week by Gov. Deval Patrick's statements that some illegal immigrants should pay in-state tuition at state universities and colleges.
Thousands of illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts can qualify for state resident tuition rates at state colleges, under a policy laid out on Monday by Gov. Deval Patrick. Patrick took state legislators by surprise when he told college and university officials that illegal immigrants who obtain a federal work permit should pay in-state tuition. In statements to the media on Monday, Patrick said that the policy is in line with what President Obama authorized last summer — that young illegal immigrants, who were brought here before age 16 with their parents, could obtain a federal work permit and remain in the U.S. without threat of deportation. He said that students who have obtained these work permits in the past have paid in-state …
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Ned Price
12:38 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012
The federal law is being subverted (albeit legally) by saying in effect that a resident of Texas can get in-state tuition in Massachusetts as long as they have graduated from a Massachusetts high school just like the illegal alien did Therefore if say a Texas parent wishes to send their kid to Deerfield Prep for high school they also will get the same benefits as the alien does This makes a … more ›