Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:10:15 PM
The newspaper, which calls them “undocumented” students (even though I’m sure they all have plenty of documents), assigned staff writer Gale Holland to try to guilt us in to embracing shamnesty.
He took 15 AP classes in high school, and kicks himself for passing up two others. Now, he is graduating from UCLA, with a double major in English and Chicano Studies and a B-plus grade point average.
But for all his success, Miguel does not share the full-bodied exuberance of the graduating seniors who marched last month five abreast into Pauley Pavilion, belting out the '60s hit "Build Me Up, Buttercup." A native of Puebla, Mexico, he is an illegal [alien].
That is how the article starts out. You know – because this is so typical of illegal aliens from Spanish-speaking countries. Stellar students who stay in school and graduate.
It’s too bad he wasted time in Chicano Studies.
"When you graduate, you're just an immigrant again."
No, sorry. Immigrants are people who come here legally. Your parents really put you in a bind.
A 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision entitled illegal immigrants to public education from kindergarten through high school
Another good reason to separate state from school.
Over the last seven years, California and nine other states have encouraged undocumented college students to pursue higher education by offering many who graduated from California high schools in-state tuition.
Which is a slap in the face to taxpayers who subsidize that and immigrants and citizens from other states who don’t get the subsidy.
“To these students, I say I hope you return to your home country right away," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), "and I hope you repay what you have spent of other people's money. It's a horrible crime."
Thanks, Representative Rohrabacher, for providing some sense to this article.
Advocates argue that it's inhumane and counterproductive to ostracize students who have come so far with so little.
Yeah, well, if you steal my car and use it to drive to school, I’m not going to say “Well, then it is okay that you stole my car! You did well as a student!” Especially if there was someone waiting to buy my car.
When will the paper do a story focusing on a gang and how it is comprised mostly of illegal aliens? I won’t hold my breath.