{"id":696,"date":"2007-05-06T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2007-05-06T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T17:43:24","slug":"the-dustin-inman-society-in-the-news-on-that-pesky-law-regarding-taxpayer-funded-college-for-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/the-dustin-inman-society-in-the-news-on-that-pesky-law-regarding-taxpayer-funded-college-for-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dustin Inman Society in the news on that pesky law regarding taxpayer funded college for illegal aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"

University policy could cut short college careers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Undocumented residents to start paying out-of-state tuition July 1<\/p>\n

By Victor Alvis
\nDalton Daily Citizen<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: Some names have been changed to maintain the anonymity of some students in this story.
\n( D.A.’s note…the names of the American students who did not get in because illegals were admitted are not published at all)<\/em><\/p>\n

Julia Lopez came to Dalton from Mexico <\/a>13 years ago as a 7-year-old second-grader. She quickly learned the language and became a standout student.<\/p>\n

She volunteered in local schools, serving as a translator between parents \u2014 mostly Dalton mill workers who didn\u2019t speak English \u2014 and teachers. At 9, she began tagging along with Latino adults to their job interviews and translating for them there, as well.<\/p>\n

At Southeast High School, she became a member of the National Honor Society, Junior Achievement and the DECA club, and was vice president of the French honor society.<\/p>\n

By the end of this summer, Lopez, now 21, expects to earn an associate\u2019s degree in business management from Dalton State College. She had planned to begin work on her bachelor\u2019s degree this fall \u2014 until a new policy was proposed by the state Board of Regents, and the University System of Georgia advised college presidents to charge out-of-state tuition to all undocumented students (waivers were previously a possibility<\/a>). The policy change is scheduled to go into effect July 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really affected me. They\u2019ve given us such short notice to come up with an additional $4,000,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cI have the Goizueta scholarship, but to get it, you have to be a full-time student. But I can\u2019t afford the $5,000 for just for one semester.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Dalton State\u2019s Web site, in-state tuition costs $1,349 per semester for a four-year program, while the same program costs $5,190 for an out-of-state student…<\/p>\n

But some, like D.A. King, don\u2019t feel the outrage.<\/p>\n

Each time the University System of Georgia grants in-state tuition to illegal aliens, it violates federal law, says King, who plans to speak during a public forum on the Regents\u2019 policy on Tuesday at Dalton State College.<\/p>\n

King is founder and president of the Dustin Inman Society, a coalition of citizens and legal immigrants with the goal of educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board of Regents has no power to waive federal law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

King says that, effective July 1, granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens will also violate the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act of 2006.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are giving in-state tuition to someone from, say, Mexico, and we are not granting that in-state tuition to an American from anyplace else in the country, we are not only in violation of the law,<\/a> but I believe we are morally wrong,\u201d said King, a Cobb County resident.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we give a seat to somebody who has no legal right to be in this country, we are taking that seat in that classroom away from an American citizen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

King says he empathizes with people who were brought to this country as small children illegally.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be nice if we could provide post-secondary education for everyone, but we cannot. There is a finite amount of seats in the classrooms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

King said that by giving in-state tuition to illegals, the University System of Georgia is giving them a \u201cclass seat in front of someone who was here legally, and on top of that we are going to charge them less money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is illegal to employ an illegal alien, so educating someone on the basis that we need to educate them so we can then employ them is counter to another federal law,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire report here<\/a>…and another ( same paper, same day) on the results of SB 529 on compliance with federal law here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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