{"id":3227,"date":"2010-05-11T21:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2010-05-11T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:22:48","slug":"3227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/3227\/","title":{"rendered":"KSU\u2019s preferential treatment of illegal immigrant student is disgusting – Laura Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marietta Daily Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

KSU\u2019s preferential treatment of illegal immigrant student is disgusting<\/strong>
\nby Laura Armstrong
\nMDJ Columnist
\nMay 10, 2010 <\/p>\n

After learning the other day that KSU went to bat for the student being deported after it was discovered she was not only in this country illegally, but had been a student at KSU for three years, I\u2019m regretting my initial sympathy for the girl. I\u2019m also angry at the university leadership, pandering when they should be leading on an important issue.<\/p>\n

Most citizens really don\u2019t care how much “potential” the young lady has; the actions of the university show Dan Papp and crew are giving special treatment to her, based on ethnic heritage, or her race or possibly even her GPA \u2014 it doesn\u2019t really matter which. The point is, they\u2019ve bent over back-wards to bring her back when I doubt they\u2019d be doing the same if she didn\u2019t have the backing of various Latino activist groups.<\/p>\n

D.A. King, a local expert on immigration policy and the consequences of illegal immi-gration, told me, “According to all the re-ports I\u2019ve read, there are numerous viola-tions of both federal and state laws in this case, both of which are designed to protect our shrinking public benefits in Georgia.”<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s true. The student, Jessica Colotl, may have been granted a deferral by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (an act of discretion, it was explained) but she remains an illegal alien and many laws have been broken.<\/p>\n

While it was initially reported Colotl claimed to pay out-of-state tuition, it was later reported KSU had granted her in-state status. How many students and their parents, legal citizens of nearby states paying five times the amount in tuition, are feeling the sting of that one?<\/p>\n

Certainly Dr. Papp can\u2019t wait for this to blow over, but I hope it doesn\u2019t. Wouldn\u2019t it be interesting to know if Jessica, who en-joyed membership in the Latina sorority on campus, also enjoyed the benefit of federal Pell grants, Georgia\u2019s HOPE scholarship or one of the coveted federal work-study jobs on campus? Our tax dollars already paid for university lawyers to intervene on her behalf, so it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if we were paying her tuition too. <\/p>\n

Might local law enforcement shed light on how her gold Honda was insured or how it passed emissions and was registered with-out a valid driver\u2019s license or address? Speaking as a mom required to jump through multiple hoops making all that happen for my college daughters\u2019 two out-of-state vehicles, I\u2019m especially interested in how that all worked.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been reported Jessica wants to attend law school. Will her deferral extend for years, and which law school will admit her? Who will pay for that, La Raza? GALEO? Coca-Cola? Me? I cannot wait to find out. <\/p>\n

Does anyone out there know Jessica\u2019s real address, anyone? Or how the university doesn\u2019t seem to care that she doesn\u2019t have one, or how she had a Mexican driver\u2019s license if she came to this country at age 7 or age 10 (depending on which version of the truth you\u2019ve read)?<\/p>\n

How does all this work, Dr. Papp? And can you really say you are serving the citi-zens of Georgia when it\u2019s a fact that deserving Georgians are being turned away from attending KSU while illegal, undocumented, ineligible-by-law people are being admitted and then given special treat-ment along the way?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure if we followed the money, we\u2019d have our answers. But right now I\u2019m just too disgusted. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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