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Community College In-State Tuition Decree for NC Illegal Aliens opposed by ALIPAC

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November 28, 2007 03:50 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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February 8, 2007
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:52 pm 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 28, 2007

CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), press@alipac.us, (866)-329-3999

The Raleigh based national organization ALIPAC, which was credited with helping to defeat in-state tuition for illegals in NC (2005), is taking aim at the administration of Governor Mike Easley (D-NC) for the recent decree that illegal aliens will now be allowed in all community colleges. The Easley administration is known nationally for giving hundreds of thousands of licenses to illegal aliens, an issue that NY Governor Spitzer was pummeled for even considering.

NC Community College Attorney, David Sullivan who issued the order, falsely claims that this move will not cost NC taxpayers because the illegal aliens will be charged out of state tuition. Unknown to most North Carolinians, provisions were secretly placed into law years ago that qualifies illegal aliens for in-state tuition for community colleges in NC.

"The public was enraged in 2005 and polls showed over 80% public opposition to the legislative push for HB 1183 'in-state tuition for illegal aliens'," says ALIPAC spokesman William Gheen. "When Republicans discovered that the Democrats had already placed in-state tuition for illegal aliens into law for community colleges, they tried to change the law and the Democrats stopped them."

On the heels of the collapse of in-state tuition legislation and the discovery of existing legislation directed at community colleges, State Senator Neil Hunt (R-Raleigh) offered an amendment to the state budget bill in 2005 that would strip out the language offering illegal aliens in-state tuition. THE AMENDMENT PASSED THE NC SENATE UNANIMOUSLY AND WAS LATER STRIPPED OUT OF THE BILL BEHIND CLOSED DOORS BY AN ALL DEMOCRAT CONFEREE COMMITTEE!

"Governor Mike Easley is the next national poster boy for supporting illegal aliens, just like NY Governor Spitzer," says Gheen. "We are calling on the Governor to close the door to illegals in our colleges immediately because this violates existing federal law and we should not be training illegal aliens for jobs they cannot legally hold!"

William Gheen and ALIPAC are calling on NC Governor Mike Easley to rescind the order which will allow illegals into community college, for the state legislature to go into emergency session to address this issue, and all candidates for state office to express their opposition to this measure.

The issue is quickly becoming part of the national debate on illegal immigration, as William Gheen goes on national news shows tonight to discuss the matter.


November 28, 2007 04:00 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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May 25, 2007
Graciela, thanks for the post!  Wonder of Lou, et al know about this?  Do you know when/where Gheen will be on TV?

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November 28, 2007 04:29 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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September 28, 2007
Just one more magnet put out for them.  If I live to be a thousand I will never understand why our elected officials can't see what they are doing to this country.  These people are ILLEGAL.  What part of illegal doesn't our government understand?  If they can't understand the word illegal they are obviously too stupid to be running our country.
August 16, 2008 10:37 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Looks like this is the outcome for now.  I made a few phone calls about this one.

Friday, August 15, 2008 - 2:58 PM EDT

Community colleges won't admit illegal immigrants – for now

Triangle Business Journal

 

The board governing the state’s community colleges voted Friday to bar illegal immigrants from admission until it comes up with a permanent policy on the issue.

The vote brings at least temporary clarity to a situation that escalated in May, when the state attorney general’s office recommended that the North Carolina Community College System stop admitting illegal immigrants. Since then, however, federal immigration officials have told N.C. leaders that no federal or state law prohibits the admission of illegal students – leaving the decision in the hands of the board.

On Friday, amid political pressure, the board decided to put off a permanent decision until it can complete a study on the issue. In the meantime, illegal immigrants won’t be admitted to the community colleges.

The number of illegal immigrants at the community colleges is a small figure, estimated to be below 0.5 percent of all students enrolled. But the issue has become politically charged.

Both candidates for governor have come out against enrolling illegal immigrants – including Democratic Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue, a member of the community colleges’ board, who voted on Friday in favor of the study and the temporary ban. And multiple lawmakers on both the state and federal level have said they’d support legslation prohibiting illegal immigrants from attending community colleges.



 

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