| The operant word here is "illegal." If these students are in fact illegal aliens, they ought to be rounded up and expelled from the country, to say nothing about any school they might be in! American college students are scratching like fury trying to come up with the money to pay for college, programs that help them are being cut or discontinued all the time by both states and the federal government, and these idiot legislators want to give ILLEGAL ALIENS preferential treatment? What's wrong with this picture?
Thank God Jodi Rell has better sense than the idjits in the Connecticut legislature. Now she's a woman I could get behind for President. She first got the job when her predecessor got caught with his hand in the till, but since has been elected in her own right. She's a Repbulican governor in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, and yet she's popular with the people of Connecticut and both parties because she does what's good for Connecticut, not just for her. (Taking notes, Slick Hillary?)
Seriously, though. We need to amend the laws on citizenship to do away with the "anchor baby," "legacy child," call the concept what you will, that rationalizes not deporting illegal aliens. Illegal is illegal. I really think that's the consituency those morons in the legislature are trying to 'help,' but something has to be done for the American kids born here of American citizen parents!
When Caucasian kids are being discriminated against in the name of racial equality and a balanced student body in favor of minorities who are not as well qualified - and don't jump on me now; I know some minorities are as well qualified, but I also know others not as qualified only get in on quota, and that's just wrong and it's what I am objecting to - and financial aid is partly determined by ethnicity rather than need, it's not fair to exalt illegal aliens over native-borns regardless of the native-borns' ethnicity. Can't we take care of our own first instead of worrying about everyone else for a change?
Personally, I am in favor of a double blind meritocratic approach to college admissions, where the admissions officers can't tell gender, ethnicity, how many generations your family has been American, or whether you are the child of a grad. You might not be able to impose that standard on schools like Harvard and Yale and Columbia, but you surely can on public colleges and universities! If the Yankee gummint can threaten to cut off all their Federal aid if they don't fund women's sports to the same degree as men's sports (which they did a few years back, and it worked), they could do the same to any school that refused to shift to double blind admissions.
A college education is a ticket to a better life in America. But that does not give any legislature the right to write free tickets for illegal aliens and their offspring, when native-born Americans are being denied the ability to buy that ticket. American benefits are supposed to be for American citizens, not for illegal aliens!
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