Re: No Illegal Alien In-State Tuition in Colorado -- But Free Tuition for Illegals by Pretending They're High School Students

[john redthorn]

Hisler wrote:
> In clear violation of the Equal Protection of the Law Statute of the
> 14th Amendment, while law abiding citizens pay tuition to go to
> community college, illegal aliens go free by pretending they're still in
> high school. Of course, that means that community colleges have now
> been dumbed down to the level of glorified illegal alien high schools.
> These politicians are so tricky and clever at serving the illegal alien
> Hispanic population while cutting benefits to law abiding citizens and
> raising their taxes.
>
>
> denver and the west
> Bill to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants with 3 years of
> Colo. high school on hold until 2011
> By Tim Hoover
> The Denver Post
>
> Posted: 12/27/2009 01:00:00 AM MST
>
> A bill to allow illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition won't go
> forward in the 2010 session, says the lawmaker who planned to sponsor
> the legislation.
>
> "I'm going to wait until 2011 to build a larger, broader, more
> bipartisan coalition of business, religious, legislative and civic
> leaders," said Rep. Joe Miklosi.
>
> Miklosi, D-Denver, had said in October he was working to line up support
> for the bill this session, which begins Jan. 13. A similar bill never
> made it to the House last year, instead dying on the Senate floor after
> five of 21 Democrats joined 14 Republicans in voting against it.
>
> Some Democrats privately have said the issue could hurt the party in
> what could be a challenging election year.
>
> Sen. Ted Harvey, a Highlands Ranch Republican who was vocal in his
> opposition to the bill last year, said Democrats are running scared.
>
> "I think that they realized that it is an incredibly hot political
> potato during an election year," Harvey said, "and they don't want to
> put their colleagues who are in swing districts in a position of voting
> for something the public does not want."
>
> The bill last year and the one Miklosi planned to introduce this year
> would have allowed students who had attended a Colorado high school for
> at least three years to get in-state tuition at a public college or
> university, regardless of their immigration status.
>
> Even though Miklosi said the bill was not going forward, supporters with
> the Higher Education Access Alliance, a coalition of the Colorado
> Education Association and immigrant rights organizations, said the issue
> wasn't dead for 2010.
>
> "Our coalition is still evaluating our options for increasing all of
> Colorado's students' access to an affordable higher education, and
> running legislation in 2010 is still on the table," Tony Salazar, the
> CEA's executive director, said in a statement.
>
> Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, supported the bill last session but did
> not champion it as a priority. In fact, Ritter issued his first public
> statement in support of the measure only after immigrant-rights groups
> asked him to do so.
>
> Asked recently if he was pushing for the legislation in 2010, Ritter
> said no. He said that a bill passed last session to expand a program
> that allows high school students to take courses for college credit
> would do more to help illegal immigrant students than in-state tuition.
>
> Under the new law, high school students can get enough credit for an
> associate's degree at the school district's expense, if the school
> district has an agreement with a college. Because the students are still
> in high school, their immigration status is not an issue when getting
> college credit.
>
> "That has a greater impact and a broader impact" than in-state tuition
> would, Ritter said.
>
> But supporters of the in-state tuition bill said it's still necessary.
>
> "Concurrent enrollment is not an option in every school district,
> therefore tuition equity is still needed," said Lynea Hansen, campaign
> director for the Higher Education Access Alliance.
>
> Tim Hoover: 303-954-1626 or tho...@denverpost.com
if the money ever stops flowing in from supporting these criminals the
politicians will pass laws and enforce them to remove every single one
of them from the country.

[Hisler]

Good point. The governor of Colorado is on TV every other week talking
about new cuts to higher education in addition to huge cuts in K-12.
Illegal aliens seem to be some kind of sacred cows with the Democrats in
the state legislature. While they raise tuition to citizens and foreign
students who attend our universities legally, they hand illegal aliens
free tickets to higher education. Power corrupts. Pandering to the
Hispanic demographic corrupts absolutely.

[Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS]

This issue would vanish if we did the right thing and stopped letting
illegals use our elementary and high schools.

[Day Brown]

Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
> This issue would vanish if we did the right thing and stopped letting
> illegals use our elementary and high schools.

We dont in my neck of Ozark woods. No kid is registered without first
getting the standard set of immunization shots. Illegal kids didnt do
that before they came here. I have read of disease outbreaks from
illegals. So, sealing the border is a National Security issue. If they
can carry in natural diseases, they can also deliver biological WMD.

[john redthorn]

You must have forgotten to listen to your liberal government i.e. La
Raza puppets . No illegal could ever be a terrorist or even a threat of
any kind.
The only problem we ever have from illegals is because Americans have
guns .