My kids don’t get to go to college for free in any of the foreign countries we LEGALLY resided in and paid taxes in.
The system is really broken when illegal immigrants get to go to college for free in my country, when I, paying hefty US federal & state income & property taxes while living overseas, am getting the short end of the college tuition stick.
Well, they probably pay a lot of taxes they won’t be using (such as SS)
But I agree, @GMTplus7, that the system is broken.
Yale has extremely generous–non-public-funds—Financial Aid.
I was talking about the UT student.
^^^False dichotomy–they’re not getting money for being undocumented. Any val at UT or low-income student at Yale would get the same money.
But talented int’l students w/o a student visa aren’t allowed to be in the US, so why are illegal immigrant student allowed to cut the queue?
As someone who is keenly familiar w jumping through painful visa hoops for our family to stay legal wherever in the world we live, this issue really rubs me the wrong way.
Because of the reality that they are here already. They have lives, roots and even jobs here; most are incredibly hard working and, frankly, without them, we’d be up the creek. There are jobs that Americans simply won’t do: picking strawberries or apples, for example, even with decent hourly wages.
Here’s an interesting article about North Carolina: “NC needed 6,500 farm workers. Only 7 Americans stuck it out”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/15/north-carolina-needed-6500-farm-workers-only-7-americans-stuck-it-out/
Is there a chance that they may lose their admission offers after this announcement?
We have international students coming on a student visa, instate legal residents, out of state legal residents.
Were they truthful in their applications? Do colleges have a policy for applications from undocumented students?
I’m a bit surprised that this is possible.
they sure are brave, that’s for sure. I guess they know nothing will happen.
And in the foreign countries we’ve lived in we were there already for years. We have lives, roots and even jobs here; we are incredibly hard working and, frankly, without people like us, these countries would be up the creek.
^There was talk about them getting free rides on the taxpayers’ dime.
Yale certainly isn’t going to rescind admission on account of documentation status. And the quotes from UT folks make it pretty clear that they know her status and are following standard procedure.
I’m sure that’s a hard pill to swallow for every immigrant who faced terrible situations at home , but chose to come to our country through legal means. >>>>>>
My daughter in law (and son) have spent a lot of money, time and effort keeping her status up to date. She is not an American citizen but she is here legally.
The immigration system is really broken. One of these student families have applied for citizenship and are still waiting 6 years later.
I do not begrudge these students an opportunity to be productive and valuable members of society for choices they had no control over.
@GMTplus7, it’s not the fault of these young people that you’ve lived in stingy nations 
And, like I said, many of these children’s parents do jobs that Americans don’t want to. They’re filling a void our society has created.
I really do not get how my credit card company is capable of tracking irregularities in credit card transactions to an anal degree, but our government can’t track irregularities in SS payments. ~X(
So…no one knows the ins and outs of how they can be enrolled or get SSNs?
SSNs are actually easy to get – tens of thousands of college students from all over the world come to the US every summer to work in hotels/resorts, etc. on J-1 visas. (It’s the so-called work & travel program). They get SSNs. Then they go home. Who’s to say they don’t then sell that number to someone else?
@GMTplus7, maybe it’s not in the government’s own interest to track them… seeing as “unauthorized” workers have pumped a staggering $100 billion into social security over the past decade 
https://news.vice.com/article/unauthorized-immigrants-paid-100-billion-into-social-security-over-last-decade
The compensation level of jobs is set by the free market. It’s driven simply by supply & demand. If there’s a shortage of people to fill crappy jobs, then the compensation level will go up to attract people. If there’s a large supply of people (illegal immigrants) willing to fill crappy jobs, then the compensation level will remain low.
For Yale, they can just tell them in the application they are undocumented, the Ivies don’t care, they want a few for “diversity”. For Texas, the public schools assign a number in lieu of SS, I believe they can carry this number through the application process.
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started/for-undocumented-students
I am sympathetic to these kids, but maybe a thank you or two might be in order. Oh, and don’t add a Mexican flag emoji to your tweet - you either want to be an American and enjoy these benefits, or you should go back.
@GMTplus7, I don’t know… on the western slope of Colorado, $18/hr jobs picking peaches go begging. One farmer even offered local college kids free bus service to and from the orchards and a subsidized lunch. He had very few takes and ended up with a company that brings in migrant workers. You hear lots of stories like that in farming communities.
Precisely for situations like this where an employer can document that it cannot find American workers to fill jobs offered at a fair market wage, is why our country has a guest worker visa policy.
https://www.doleta.gov/business/gw/guestwkr/
Here’s the policy for seasonal agricultural workers
https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/h-2a.cfm