LOOK AT MEX-OCCUPIED CA. THIS STATE NOW PUTS OUT $22 BILLION
PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS AND HAS A SOARING MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL
WAVE. ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN
CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
LOS ANGELES PUTS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO
ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. MEXICAN WOMEN THAT HOP OUR BORDERS TO
GIVE BIRTH AND COLLECT 18 YEARS OF WELFARE.
THE ENTIRE REASON OUR BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED WITH MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS.
Latinos represent the nation's largest minority group and —
as many of the speakers reminded the audience — the nation's economic success
is intricately tied to theirs.
WHEN DO YOU EVER HEAR ABOUT A POLITICIAN EXPRESSING CONCERN
FOR THE PLIGHT OF AN AMERICAN STUDENT OR FOR THE FACT THAT ALL JOBS GO TO
FOREIGNERS OR ILLEGALS IF A STUDENT DOES MAKE IT THROUGH COLLEGE???
Sen. Ed Murray plans to sponsor legislation next year that
would open state-funded college aid to low-income graduates of state high
schools who are in the country unlawfully.
Legislators to seek state aid for undocumented
students
A Latino policy forum
drew dozens of educators, community leaders, lawmakers and others to a
conference center at SeaTac Friday.
Seattle Times staff
reporter
Sen. Ed Murray plans to sponsor
legislation next year that would open state-funded college aid to low-income
graduates of state high schools who are in the country unlawfully.
"I feel so
strongly about the justice and need for this that I plan to make passage one of
my top legislative priorities in 2013," Murray, of Seattle, stated in
prepared remarks that were delivered on his behalf at a Latino policy forum
Friday to dozens of educators, community leaders and fellow state Democratic
lawmakers.
Such legislation is
sure to be controversial, given the state of the economy, the limited resources
that are available for higher education and the unwillingness of some
conservative lawmakers to extend public benefits to those here illegally.
While details would
still need to be worked out, the measure would enable these students to qualify
for State Need Grant and College Bound programs, as well as other publicly
funded financial aid.
Supporters called the
plan the next logical step in a process that began nearly a decade ago when the
Legislature passed House Bill 1079 allowing those students in this country
illegally to qualify for in-state tuition rates.
"Ten years later
these same students still don't qualify for state financial aid that helps
children from low-income backgrounds go to college," said Ricardo Sanchez,
director of the Latino/a Educational Achievement Project.
"These are
bright, gifted kids who deserve and want to go to college. It would put them in
a position to repay the substantial education investment we have made in
them."
Some 75,000
Washington students this academic year are benefiting from the state's largest
financial-aid program, State Need Grant, with another 32,000 eligible but
unserved because there's not enough money.
The Legislature allocated
$266 million toward State Need this year and $303 million for the upcoming
school year in light of increased tuition rates across the state.
Ira Mehlman,
spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates
controlled immigration, said it's unfair to ask Washington families struggling
to educate their own children to subsidize the education of those whose parents
broke the law in bringing them here.
"The idea that a
state that is cutting services everywhere is going to come up with even more
money to finance higher education for illegal aliens, something that's not even
mandated under federal law, makes no sense."
The financial-aid
proposal was one of several policy proposals raised during the daylong Latino
forum, sponsored by Sea Mar Community Health Centers and its Latino Educational
Achievement Project. The event was aimed at drawing attention to the growing
educational needs of Latinos and exploring ways to help them succeed.
Latinos represent the nation's largest
minority group and — as many of the speakers reminded the audience — the
nation's economic success is intricately tied to theirs.
The gathering, at the
Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center, was a virtual Who's Who of
educational leaders from across the state and within the Latino community:
Randy Dorn, state Superintendent of Public Instruction; the superintendents of
the Seattle and Kent school districts; four college presidents and university
chancellors.
Murray couldn't
attend the forum because of other pressing matters, but a panel of Democratic
lawmakers addressed the ideas and kicked around some of their own, including
bringing foreign-language education to kids as early as kindergarten.
They resisted taking
up the thorny subject of financial aid for undocumented students until pushed
by Debra Wilds, president and chief operating officer of the College Success
Foundation, which provides some financial assistance for undocumented immigrant
students.
The lawmakers, all
Democrats who chair education-related committees, pointed out that the
Legislature will start the session next year with the state in the red. While
they already support the idea, they urged those gathered to contact lawmakers
who might be on the fence or against it, in order to move the issue forward.
"What are you
going to do to make sure we get that legislation passed?" asked Rep.
Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney, D-Seattle, who sponsored the in-state-tuition bill in
2003.
Three states —
California, New Mexico and Texas — now provide financial aid to undocumented
immigrant students. Three years ago, a similar measure was introduced in the
Legislature here, but received only a single hearing before it died.
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