HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
AS WE BEGIN THE NEW 2011 SESSION IN ANNAPOLIS LET'S REMEMBER TO TARGET EARLY AND OFTEN THE FOLLOWING ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO HAVE COME OUT IN FAVOR OF IN-STATE TUITION FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS:
SENATOR-ELECT VICTOR RAMIREZ (D- PRINCE GEORGE'S & EL SALVADOR)
SENATOR RICHARD MADALENO (D- MONTGOMERY COUNTY)
SENATOR-ELECT ROGER MANNO -(D- MONTGOMERY COUNTY)
DELEGATE TOM HUCKER - (D - MONTGOMERY COUNTY)
MORE DETAILED CONTACT INFO WILL BE PROVIDED NEXT WEEK.
NO DOUBT THIS LIST WILL GET LONGER!
"Md. lawmakers battle over tuition benefits for illegals"
http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/education/2010/12/maryland-lawmakers-fight-over-state-college-tuition-illegal-immigrants
"Md. to weigh own 'DREAM' tuition act"
"Md. to weigh own 'DREAM' tuition act"
baltimoresun.com
Tuition proposal encourages lawbreaking
1:55 PM EST, December 30, 2010
I continue to be amazed at some lawmakers' efforts to introduce and support legislation that appears to undermine and make a mockery of existing immigration law. Case in point, the proposed "in-state tuition for illegal immigrants." Is it logical to propose or support legislation that would knowingly grant a person the right to attend a university or college at a discount for living in a state in which they are not legally allowed to be? The proposal appears to simplistically ignore existing immigration law as if it didn't exist, and even worse encourages violation of the law. Instead of properly dealing directly with any perceived need to revise existing immigration law, such legislation brazenly attempts to legalize and legitimize looking the other way. That sets a bad precedent and a poor example.
While perhaps well intended, because it would benefit innocent children, the proposal if adopted would inadvertently promote illegal immigration by declaring that if one comes to this country illegally and is clever enough, devious enough, or lucky enough to avoid deportation and "successfully" break immigration law for a prescribed amount of time, the government would then not only overlook the ongoing violation of the law, but reward it as well.
Ironically, as a consequence, those that desire to be in this country just as much, but are attempting to obtain citizenship through proper channels - the obedient, law-abiding candidates that respect our rules (the preferable additions to our country) - they are unfairly placed at a disadvantage for being honest.
Regardless of one's position on the issue of immigration, if reform is the goal, the wrong approach is being taken, and the wrong message is being sent.
Scott Richardson, Westminster
3 comments:
firgures, montgomery county is already broke, and PG county is the biggest sh@thole in the state. now they want to offer to the rest of us what they have done for themselves!
In state tuition? Heck, once they check Hispanic on the form, they probably will pay little to nothing for college in MD. Salisbury University is falling all over itself to become more diverse. How do these kids get SS numbers and the paperwork to register for college anyway if they here illegally?
Then answer me on why Obama and the DemocRATS are so concerned or so they say that American schools / Students need to improve because these Students are lagging behind in the world? Well is it they / their parents can't afford to send them because Illegals get the Tax dollars instead? Conway, Mathias, Cain and the Eastern Shore Delegation of DemocRATS will follow suit no matter what. So don't you worry. Your tax dollars are going to be taken from our children and tax dollars given to illegal aliens. Illegals are thanking Maryland every day for being a Sanctuary State. Thanks to Mikulski and the Maryland DemocRATS in Washington along with the State DemocRATS.
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