The Patrick administration’s decision to extend in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants who qualify for a work permit carves a new path through the thicket of state policies on the issue, immigration specialists said Tuesday, and could spur other states to follow suit.
Massachusetts’ policy shift, which has drawn a backlash from critics since it was announced Monday, marks the first time a state has allowed immigrants who qualify under relaxed federal immigration guidelines to pay the lower resident rate, specialists said.
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This patchwork of state laws is the direct result of the vacuum created by the federal government's abject failure to deal rationally with this issue over the last 30 years.
I concur. We should have been rounding them up and sending them back for a long time now..... (and I mean the mexicans as well as the irish....)
The left always knows what's best for the rest of us. My kid can't go to UNH paying instate tuition but an illegal's can? What a world. And no, they don't pay the same taxes we do. They work under the table. What part of illegal don't you lefties understand?
What in the world are you talking about? Why would you bring the University of New Hampshire into this discussion? What part of "we don't care about your kid's ability to attend the University of New Hampshire do you righties not understand"?
Read the story, it's about Deval's plan to give in state tuition to illegals spreading nation wide. Therefore, being a resident of Massachusetts, I would not be able to send my child to UNH with in state tuition but an illegal could.
"While laws on residency and in-state tuition vary widely among states, the move in Massachusetts marked a clear response to the Obama administration’s immigration policy, and advocates said it sets the stage for other states to consider similar measures."
What a joke... The Patrick end run to make his own set of laws, no matter the state Legislature, is merely the State House Corner Office space occupier's mimicry of the dubious procedure that his Chicago political hack bosom buddy, Barry the O, used to set up the imitiation "Dream Act" for illegal aliens brought to the U.S. by their illegally emigrated parents. Patrick has done nothing more than empowered himselt to be above legislators and the courts (in his mind) in this illegal declaration that illegal aliens get in-state tuition rates at state institutions so long as they have some sort of federal work documentation. As for the "immigration specialists' opinions on the significance of Deeeval's pompous lawmaking, those have as much meaning as do the opinings of opponents of illegal immigrants getting favoritism for EBT cards, reduced tuition, drivers' licenses and other extra privileges not available to Americans from other states. Why doesn't this lilliputian hack from Chicago put his tuition policy to the Legislature to see if Terrible Tessie and Bumpy Bobby lead their members' in a charge to approve it? Oh yeah... Barry the O set a two-year limit for his fake Dream Act signalling out certain immigrants - has Deeval the Self-Magnificentized put a time limit on his most questionable in-state tuition law making?
What an insult to the working folks in Massachusetts. Fingers crossed, but it looks like I'll have enough money to put my kids in private schools and private colleges.... But for those of you who don't.... Devalue just let you know that he care's more about the ILLEGALS than he does about you and your family. Remember, the state SUBSIDIZES instate tuition...which means they don't charge enough to cover costs...which means coveted seats will go to the ILLEGALS...and decent americans will have to get in line behind the ILLEGALs... Why do DeValue and the Liberals hate the working families in Mass? Granny said the middle class was getting hammered....and, here you have the Hammer. Taxes are going up...and Devalue is taking that money and giving it to ILLEGAL ALIENS. Don't blame me...I voted for muffy, the old guy, and mittens....