While Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has engaged himself in a (futile) effort to convince the 81% of Americans who oppose in-state tuition for illegal aliens they are wrong – and heartless, Arizona is making sure no schools can offer this disgraceful subsidy.
Arizona’s legislature first tried to ban in-state tuition for illegals in 2005, but then-Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed the bill. So the very next year, voters overwhelmingly (71%) approved Sen. Russell Pearce’s Proposition 300 to ban the practice at state schools.
But some state community colleges, such as the Maricopa County Community College District, attempted to skirt the law by allowing illegal immigrants to continue to qualify for in-state tuition as part-time students.
So Senate President Pearce and Sen. Linda Gray asked Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne for his legal opinion on whether MCC could get away with this trick to benefit illegals – and yesterday Horne said no way. State law clearly bars community colleges from granting illegals in-state tuition under any circumstances.
Thank you Attorney General Horne for making sure that the kind of unfair subsidy and magnet for illegal aliens Rick Perry defends, will continue to have no place in Arizona.
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“But some state community colleges, such as the Maricopa County Community College District, attempted to skirt the law by allowing illegal immigrants to continue to qualify for in-state tuition as part-time students.”
Time to get rid of those people who tried to pull this or they’ll pull something similar again.
Wikipedia sez: “The Chancellor of the Maricopa Community Colleges is the CEO of the 10-college system. The Presidents at each college and a select group of Vice Chancellors report to the Chancellor, who serves at the pleasure of the Governing Board.”
Gotta be somebody(s) in here:
Board of Governors:
President Randolph Lumm
Secretary Jerry D. Walker
Member Donald R. Campbell
Member Debra Pearson
Chancellor Rufus Glasper
The Chancellor is who brought the issue to the Board to have the past tuition for part time illegals to be done away with. The vote was 4 in favor of following the law, 1 opposed. The one in opposition was Board President Randolph Lumm. He represents the north west Phoenix area. He has then stirred up the emotions of students and spent a great deal of time participating in comments that created a public hate environment at MCCCD Board meetings for months. Then he forced a vote onto the Board agenda because he believed this tactic had intimidated two of the Board members to change their vote and give subsidized tuition to illegals. He even challenged that until a force that had the ability to make us follow the law of Prop 300, we should not have done anything. The vote was held and the vote was 3-2 in support of the Board following the law.
To me it should be a crime to try to manipulate, intimidate or coerce an Elected body to vote to break the law and it should be considered aggravated if the person doing so is in a power or leadership position of that elected body. The only people who can do anything about this conduct are those who live in Mr. Lumm’s District.
Oh, and by the way, Jerry Walker is not on the Board. Dana Saar now fills that postion and was an awesome supporter and defender of the Board’s responsibility on this issue.
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