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In Mass., order stirs joy, disbelief, outrage

Megha Sharma read the text message and jumped out of bed, screaming. Gladys Martinez warned her best friend that she had better not be joking.

At the Alewife T station, Francisca Rodriguez stared at her phone and burst into uncontrollable tears.

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It seems nice that Sharma and others like her will now be eligible for scholarships. Unfortunately, this means that the available pool of scholarships available for US Citizens will decrease. This short sighted directive will create a host unfortunate consequences. No worries for the Dems, they will stay in their ivory towers on campus, collect their generous salaries and benefits and let others pay the price for their dreams of utopia.

These kids are Americans now!

Love thy neighbor.

So what of the parents who brought them here illegally? Will they be deported when the kids apply for amnesty? Because if not, then the government is just ignoring them. That would be Obama's style...do something halfway and then pat himself on the back.

When the kids apply for this work/study permit, they are admitting that they were brought here illegally. So of course we will pursue that and arrest and deport the parents, right? If a child is caught with stolen property, identifies the parents as the thieves, then the police would of course pursue that and arrest the parents.