{"id":3340,"date":"2010-06-22T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2010-06-23T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:01:26","slug":"3340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/3340\/","title":{"rendered":"Regents’ lawyer on putting illegals in citizens and real immigrants university seats: “We\u2019re pretty comfortable that our legal position is quite correct”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gainesville Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Regents discuss student residency<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuition rate different for illegal immigrants <\/strong><\/p>\n

By Carolyn Crist
\nccrist@gainesvilletimes.co<\/p>\n

POSTED June 22, 2010 <\/p>\n

A new Board of Regents committee met Monday morning by phone to discuss how to verify residency and tuition for illegal immigrants attending public colleges in Georgia.<\/p>\n

The Special Committee on Residency Verification is determining how to check students\u2019 status so they are charged the out-of-state tuition rate if they are not legal residents, but other recently debated topics popped up as well \u2014 how to handle students who lie about their status on the application and whether undocumented students should be attending college in the first place.<\/p>\n

A group of 15 Republican senators wrote a letter to the regents last week, saying illegal immigrants should be barred from attending colleges at all. Some lawmakers said they would introduce a bill to take action on the issue.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m concerned that we can solve this residency verification problem but don\u2019t necessarily solve the other large problem about the admission of nonresidents,” regent Felton Jenkins said. “That\u2019s a big question that somebody needs to answer.”<\/p>\n

While some committee members questioned whether the decision even falls under their power, others wondered if they should ask the attorney general\u2019s office to review its policy.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate that people can say what they wish,” Chancellor Erroll Davis said. “We\u2019re pretty comfortable that our legal position is quite correct.”<\/p>\n

But Cobb County immigration activist D.A. King doesn\u2019t think it is. King, president of the Dustin Inman Society against illegal immigration, said benefits include more than just in-state tuition in schools. It includes any amount of post-secondary education.<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t express my outrage,” King said before speaking to the Masonic Lodge in Gainesville on Monday night. “The law is made clear, and it\u2019s fascinating that it keeps happening because of the no illegal immigrant gets left behind agenda of the board. It\u2019s taking classroom seats away from our citizens.”<\/p>\n

Rather than a question of mere legality, it\u2019s a question of changing policy, regent Larry Walker said…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Gainesville Times Regents discuss student residency Tuition rate different for illegal immigrants By Carolyn Crist ccrist@gainesvilletimes.co POSTED June 22, 2010 A new Board of Regents committee met Monday morning by phone to discuss how to verify residency and tuition for illegal immigrants attending public colleges in Georgia. The Special Committee on Residency Verification is determining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}