{"id":3346,"date":"2010-06-23T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2010-06-23T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:45:21","slug":"attorney-general-candidates-to-regents-follow-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/attorney-general-candidates-to-regents-follow-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Candidates to Regents: &#8216;Follow law&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Marietta Daily Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candidates to Regents: &#8216;Follow law&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nby Jon Gillooly<br \/>\njgillooly@mdjonline.co<br \/>\nJune 23, 2010  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MARIETTA &#8211; Forget the debate about whether to charge illegal immigrants in-state or out-of-state college tuition. Four of the five candidates vying to be Georgia&#8217;s next attorney general say illegal immigrants should not be attending a public Georgia university at all. <\/p>\n<p>The Journal caught up with the candidates at Southern Polytechnic State University, where they engaged in a debate Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Republican Sam Olens said Georgia law bars illegal immigrants from attending public universities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absent a student visa, they should not be attending such institutions,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Olens called on the Georgia Board of Regents, the body that governs Georgia&#8217;s colleges and universities, to &#8220;immediately follow the law. Illegal immigrants have no right to attend the universities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Olens said it is not acceptable to allow illegal immigrants to attend state universities even if they pay the higher out of state tuition rate. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. Illegal immigrants are not entitled to attend state universities, period,&#8221; Olens said. <\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Rob Teilhet (D-Smyrna) also believes Georgia law bars illegal immigrants from attending Georgia universities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion it does. Now, a similar federal law has been interpreted to mean they can attend, but just not receive student aid, but I don&#8217;t agree with that interpretation. I think a public benefit includes public universities,&#8221; Teilhet said. <\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s at all unclear, the Legislature needs to take steps to clarify the matter, he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think attendance at a public university is a public benefit and we said in the Legislature that illegal immigrants won&#8217;t receive public benefits in the state of Georgia. Attendance at a university in my mind is clearly a public benefit that would be prohibitive,&#8221; Teilhet said&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MORE<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdjonline.com\/view\/full_story\/8018058\/article-Candidates-to-Regents---Follow-law-?instance=home_news_bullets\"> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marietta Daily Journal Candidates to Regents: &#8216;Follow law&#8217; by Jon Gillooly jgillooly@mdjonline.co June 23, 2010 MARIETTA &#8211; Forget the debate about whether to charge illegal immigrants in-state or out-of-state college tuition. Four of the five candidates vying to be Georgia&#8217;s next attorney general say illegal immigrants should not be attending a public Georgia university at [&hellip;]<\/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\/3346"}],"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=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}