North Carolina Keeps Its Community Colleges Illegal Immigrants Ban
The board that governs North Carolina's 58 community colleges has voted to keep in place a ban on illegal immigrants but delay a permanent policy until it completes a study of how other states handle such students. The decision, reached on August 15, has hardly appeased folks on either side of the debate. Both supporters of an open-door policy and opponents of illegal immigration denounced the decision as a political play by members of the state board, including Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, the Democratic candidate for governor, who made the motion to keep the ban while a study is ongoing. Perdue has been unavailable for comment, but other board members have said that their decision was not politically motivated.
Last week, U.S. News reported on undocumented students who are caught between conflicting immigration policies. In North Carolina, the community colleges have been flip-flopping on whether to admit undocumented students for years. Of the estimated 300,000 students enrolled in the state's community colleges in 2006-07, only 112 were illegal immigrants, according to the results of one survey. Jacqueline, a North Carolina undocumented student who spoke with U.S. News, can continue her studies. The ban affects only new applicants who are illegal immigrants—whose future is now even more uncertain.
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I-9s Need to be E-Verifid, Use IMAGE, and 287g Program
The problem is employers are not E-Verifying I-9s. The governor of NC and Attorney General knows the Community College Board is aiding and abetting illegal aliens. Why? Who is making money on the slave labor? And what NC Citizens have been displaced by illegals?
NC Students/Citizens are being cheated out of higher class ranking due to illegal alien students being allowed to be ranked by Grade Point Averaging -GPA system. So some very qualified NC Students get displaced by illegal aliens in lower level courses in this ranking. Being given straight "A's" for lesser work in High School, then getting a higher ranking in front of NC Citizen/Student with "B" Honor work. See the loophole is all these course grades go into a GPA ranking to go to COLLEGE. Then the scholarships and colleges look at students class ranking when accepting or giving awards out. THINK NC CITIZENS IS THIS FAIR TO OUR OWN CITIZENS/STUDENTS?
Displaced North Carolina Students by lower course of study illegal alien students is abusing NC Citizens.
The simple solution for education, employment, financial, drug cartels, and criminal aiding and abetting of illegal aliens would be to require the full State of North Carolina to use E-Verify of I-9 of every employee.Currently, the ESC (unemployment offices) in NC only E-Verify the I-9 of MIGRATE FARM WORKERS. Why not all I-9s?
And all NC police should be required to join the 70 of 3,000 DISTRICTS in the country that use 287g Program. The media and police reports should contain the legal status of inmates in the jails in North Carolina. One state actually puts the words of "ON HOLD FOR ICE" for public information in their media and police information to the public. What is the big secret? And who is benefiting and losing from not check the identity of everyone?
NO TO AMNESTY VIA THE DREAM ACT - E-VERIFY - USE 287g PROGRAM - GET INVOLVED BEFORE TAXES GO UP MORE
illegal immigrants
What will happen to the children who are brought to the united states by thier illegal parents? These children are raised with americans and adopt this country as thier own. What future will these childen have? With America closing their community colleges doors to illegals... there is no future here for these children that were brought here at a very young age. These children are going to school, and they do wish to continue thier education in order to better off their families to pay back the hard work their parents did for them so they can have better opportunities in this country. Just because illegals come here with out permission it does not mean they are criminals or deliquents... they are just looking for a better life that many americans take for granted by throwing away great opportunites.
America is for Americans?
"{previous comments edited out} Bottom line is that America is for Americans and legal immigrants who spend thousands of dollars on lawyers and fees to INS to come here legally"
America is for Americans? Now, there's a nice catch-phrase, but when one ponders over it outside of the emotional content, it really carries no weight. Just who exactly are these "Americans" that you talk of? Citizens? Green card holders? Student visa holders? Work visa holders?
How quickly we forget that just a generation ago, it was "some other group" that was being blasted for "turning America into something other than America" (or something like that), and this sort of thing simply repeats every couple decades. Take a moment and realize that education is the way to a productive life in society, and then consider how much improvement would come from many, many productive lives in society... and the obvious benefits are seen. One can take the principled argument and rail against illegal immigrants, but when considered in the proper, long-term context (historical and future), it is abundantly clear that such a narrow view is, er...., narrow and somewhat self-defeating.
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