So, illegals will get financial aid, while tuition keeps going up?

beyphy
Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:36:48 +0000

The question is, why should these legal residents be barred from pursuing higher education due to funding undocumented students?



who says the two are mutually exclusive? Are our only options really to help illegal immigrants or betray native californians? this is absurd.

California’s higher education system was meant for california residents not just for ‘legals’, and excluding ‘illegals’ what has a bunch of people mad is that you don’t need to be an american citizen to be a Californian. (although i will admit that this does seem counter-intuitive)



this bill would not have passed if it wasn’t for the Latino population that has entered the legislative sector of the California state government and is supporting legislation based on ethnicity.



that latino population is representing what’s probably the largest minority, in terms of race, in california. The whole point of representatives is that they’re supposed to represent the population and their interests, which california’s legislators have clearly done.

In regards to the bill, this isn’t even guaranteed money. To receive it, one needs the requisite grades to get it. That doesn’t mean to say that this will benefit more asian IIs than Mexican IIs, but i wouldn’t doubt that both would receive a substantial amount of it.

lastly, let’s get some math in here:

IMS, the new legislation will require an additional 40m out of the 1.2b pot. That amounts to roughly .003% It’s not even half of a percent.