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Georgia Regents Want Colleges to Review Students' Citizenship Status

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The state of Georgia is taking the immigration issue seriously, and a major move by a state board is making waves around the state and the higher ed community.

The State Board of Regents has asked all public colleges and universities in the Peach State to review the citizenship status of its students, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. While undocumented immigrants are allowed to attend Georgia's public colleges, they are required to pay out-of-state tuition regardless of their home state, the report says. The ordered review comes after news surfaced that an undocumented immigrant at Kennesaw State University was paying in-state tuition.

A committee will evaluate the best way to review the students' citizenship status, the report says.

"If we don't do something, the public will think, just like every bureaucratic agency, that we're going to study it to death," Regent Ken Bernard tells the Journal-Constitution.

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Currently, by best estimates, there are 9 million unemployed Americans (many of them young and just starting out with huge college bills due) and, by best estimates, there are 11 million illegal aliens holding jobs in the U.S......Even the Lyin' Hawaiian could do the math...

Tom Goss 3:39AM June 16, 2010

First of all, illegal aliens (the correct term) are NOT entitled to ANY benefits at either the federal, state,or local level, so some folks in Georgia are wrong. Second, it is a FEDERAL offense to assist these people. Check the US Code! We MUST stop illegally helping Third World people who sneak in, take benefits/jobs/housing from US citizens and LEGAL RESIDENTS. We are a debtor nation still in the throes of a serious recession. Millions of honest, hard working people from many countries wait years to come here and contribute to the American dream. No path to citizenship, No amesty, No benefits. Go home and apply like everyone else. That's the AMERICAN WAY!

ChristmasTree of NY 10:34AM June 15, 2010