It always amazes me that these states were giving in-state tuition breaks to people who are foreign nationals and therefore definitely cannot be considered residents of the United States let alone a specific state.
Georgia is the latest state to pass denial of in-state tuition breaks to illegal aliens. Currently in-state residents going to Georgia State University pay $1,819 per semester while out of state residents pay $7,276, a difference of $5,457 per semester per illegal alien student that the taxpayers of Georgia have been paying.
How this in any way can be construed as fair to Georgia taxpayers by any group is beyond me, but of course illegal alien proponents will try to play the race and sympathy cards for some poor illegal aliens ignoring the poor of Georgia that are being denied entry even though their parents are footing the bill.
Of course Georgia cannot estimate the savings to taxpayers because they don't track illegal aliens, students or otherwise.
Now if we could just get laws passed denying all that free "tuition" the taxpayers of the United States are paying for educating illegal alien's children from preschool through 12th grade.
AP
Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, architect of the tough immigration laws, said the state should not subsidize the education of student who won't be able to work legally after graduation. The policy shift also wards off any potential lawsuits that have plagued states like California and New York, he said.
"Georgia doesn't need to be put through that," he said.
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Ten states offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, according to the National Council of La Raza. Many of those states have faced lawsuits from U.S. citizens paying out-of-state tuition rates.
And rightly so. Why should an illegal alien receive a tuition break while a United States citizen gets charged a higher rate? It's common sense that this never should have been allowed in the first place. I don't care if the illegal alien has 4.0 or not, they shouldn't be here sucking off the teet of the United States taxpayers that have paid for and set up this system over hundreds of years of hard work so that their children would have a better education, not some foreigner who jumped the border and broke our laws.
No sympathy from me.
