Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Immigration - Illegals getting to college?
I'm pretty sure that North Carolina's politicians will be hearing a lot more about this...
This is from an article by Mark Johnson in the Charlotte Observer:
"RALEIGH - North Carolina's community college system has ordered the state's 58 campuses to admit illegal immigrants, overturning a policy of letting the heavily enrolled schools set their own rules for handling undocumented applicants.
David Sullivan, the system's top lawyer, dispatched a memo this month telling the community colleges that state regulations require the schools to admit illegal immigrants who meet the schools' basic requirements of being either a high school graduate or an adult in need of skills training.
'That's just wrong,' said Sen. Richard Stevens, a Cary Republican and co-chairman of the higher education committee. 'I can't believe North Carolina taxpayers would be asked to pay for the education of people who are in this state illegally.'"
