“Two TEXAS Grant recipients who are not in the country legally shared their stories with the Tribune on Monday. One is a Texas A&M graduate who is now working in a restaurant because he can’t provide the documentation necessary for an employer to hire him legally in his field of study, biomedical science.
The other is a recent graduate of Austin High School, the school Perry’s now-grown children attended. The student’s high school counselors described the student as a high achiever — a model student who had been accepted to numerous universities but had chosen a more affordable two-year college.”

Also, if you respect the Heritage Foundation, as Hannity, Levin and many conservatives cite often, you should read this:
“Providing In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens: A Violation of Federal Law”

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/11/providing-in-state-tuition-for-illegal-aliens-a-violation-of-federal-law

“Students in Texas Illegally Are Eligible for State Aid”

“According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which monitors the implementation of (Texas Grants) legislation, the state distributed 2,156 TEXAS Grants in fiscal year 2010 to students who had established residency under those provisions, meaning many were very likely not in the United States legally. The total amount of the awards was approximately $7.8 million.”

Source: http://www.texastribune.org/immigration-in-texas/immigration/undocumented-students-texas-receive-financial-aid/

“(Undocumented) students may qualify for state aid. They also may qualify for institutional aid from specific universities and colleges.”

“I have concerns about the expense for taxpayers,” Berman said. “We’re not providing enough grant and loan money to our own U.S. citizens.”

Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20100314-Number-of-illegal-immigrants-getting-in-9925.ece

“Students in Texas Illegally Are Eligible for State Aid”

“According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which monitors the implementation of (Texas Grants) legislation, the state distributed 2,156 TEXAS Grants in fiscal year 2010 to students who had established residency under those provisions, meaning many were very likely not in the United States legally. The total amount of the awards was approximately $7.8 million.”

Source: http://www.texastribune.org/immigration-in-texas/immigration/undocumented-students-texas-receive-financial-aid/

“(Undocumented) students may qualify for state aid. They also may qualify for institutional aid from specific universities and colleges.”

“I have concerns about the expense for taxpayers,” Berman said. “We’re not providing enough grant and loan money to our own U.S. citizens.”

Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20100314-Number-of-illegal-immigrants-getting-in-9925.ece

1. In state Tuition in Texas is NOT FREE – you still have to pay class credit fees and use fees that amount to thosands of dollars per year – “in-state” tuition simply recognizes that the individual and family for years has paid sales tax in Texas which also supports higher education. The children of illegal aliens, who Texas is commanded by the Federal Governent to educate, that have gone through Texas high schools and received a Texas high school education have been granted the right to pay the same tuition costs as their classmates – as debated and overwhelmingly passed in the very conservative Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate.

2. The transportation corridors are being built. Governor Perry recognized that we were choking on traffic. In my area, Round Rock, Texas, there was a chance of losing Dell Computer’s headquarters and local Austin area manufacturing because workers and product could not get to the airport without heavy traffic delays. Initial parts of State Highways 130 & 45 were built with a combination of gas-tax money and long term debt (tolls) and Dell stayed put. The major new highway corridors are allowing Texas to continue to grow economically. I don’t like tolls but paying tolls on open, fast efficient freeway corridors saves me time and gas over sitting in traffic. The infrastructure corridors are one reason we have an expanding supply of jobs.

Governor Perry has maintained a steady, conservative hand on the helm of Texas government and we in Texas have received great benefit from that leadership.

We are in sync on this issue. We have been living in an age where everyone is encouraged to go to college… can’t afford it? No problem, apply for a grant, scholarships, squeeze your parents. I know a math professor, you know what he tells me? He has watered down his statistics material to make sure the lowest idiot in the class “gets it,” he doesn’t have time to teach formulas, they are too hard to learn, so he lets his class enter everything on computer programs to figure out problems for them. After each semester, he loses between 5-10 percent of his students after the first month, not because they dropped for academic reasons, but because their student loan check arrived, and they successfully gamed the system.

I enjoyed reading your reality. That’s as close to reality as it gets. RINO voters, instead of taking a solid stance, cave in and agree with Perry’s philosophy… “Aw… you don’t have a heart.” The only difference between that attitude and the OWS attitude is RINO’s think about it in sympathetic terms, and OWS thinks about it in apathetic terms. No wonder RINO’s “feel” for these OWS bums.

Let’s just look at another reality here: The college loan bubble is very soon to burst, estimated at at trillion dollars. Speaking from personal experience, there are right now today millions of under-educated people who should be working or going to trade schools instead of wasting time, money and resources on college. I would estimate that at minimum, half of every student in my business admin classes, ( including 2nd and 3rd year students) could write a proper sentence, had little to no reading comprehension skills, and couldn’t add 2 and 2 without a calculator. ( and maybe 3 lifelines) NOT EVERYONE qualifies for a PHD in engineering.

Just like the ignorance of “everyone deserves a house” liberal-progressive republican scheme that collapsed the housing and mortgage sector, all these unqualified neanderthals sucking down 15-20 grand a year in college loans will never be able to pay them back. Ka-BOOM! Now tell me illegals crawling in here with a third grade education also deserve to go to a U.S. college? The college entrance exams ( when they actually make them take them) of today would be passed by 99.9% of my fourth grade class back in “68.

Once again the manipulators up in Congress, in their ever-increasing desire for multi-cultural diversity and pandering to minorities for their votes, have created another huge crisis- the college loan bubble. Just like in the housing mortgage bubble burst, these mathematically-challenged misfits in DC are counting every penny (plus interest) that they “Hope” to get paid back from these college loans, when they decide how much of the taxpayers money the are going to spend in the coming years. When all that “projected” federal revenue from those college loans to neanderthals fails to come in, BOOM, another trillion added to our national debt.

This is all very simple to stop. States need to make it mandatory, regardless of money ( so daddy can’t buy you that fake Harvard degree like Obama was given by the U.S. Taxpayers) for anyone in their state to take a serious college entrance exam under strict guidelines. I,m here to tell you right now, 60% will never get into college. Go learn a trade, or go back to grade school and get a real education. NO GRANTS unless qualified. No LOANS- unless they are from a private financial institution that will check out the people applying for them to make sure they are a good investment. Just because you are half-African, Asian, Mexican or some other form of victim-card playing minority does not mean you have a right to college at taxpayers expense, period. Now let the whining begin from the uninformed who do not see the college loan bubble bursting, and it’s repercussions.

People who support Perry are mini-RINO’s, riding the fence of liberal acceptance.

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Tari says:
December 1, 2011 at 2:41 pm
That was muddled. I meant to say that there is nothing shocking about the in-state tuition decision that the state of Texas made. Nothing at all. And given the options Texas has due to the position that the federal government has put them in, it is not only decent, it is smart.

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Max says:
December 2, 2011 at 9:19 am
It isn’t shocking. It’s dumb. In-state tuition qualifies “poor” illegals for tuition grant money, meaning more than a few illegals in Texas aren’t paying a dime for college. Why? Most are poor and qualify for the grants.

I can’t even qualify for that. On what planet is it okay for Conservatives to back a candidate that provides “free” college tuition loopholes for non-citizens? And you want this man to be President, to make this a federal law?

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I can’t even qualify for that. On what planet is it okay for Conservatives to back a candidate that provides “free” college tuition loopholes for non-citizens? And you want this man to be President, to make this a federal law?