California Law Opens Private Funding for Illegal Immigrant Students, Public Funding Could Follow
- Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:15pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Blaze/AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed a bill that will let students who entered the country illegally receive private financial aid at California’s public colleges, even as debate continues over a more contentious bill that would allow access to public funding.
The Democratic governor signed AB130 at Los Angeles City College. It is the first of a two-bill package referred to as the California Dream Act, which is aimed at getting financial aid for college students who entered the country illegally.
“It’s crucial that we invest in every child that lives and is born in this state. Signing this Dream Act is another piece of investment in people because people drives the culture, the economy,” Brown told a crowd of about 100 students and community leaders who gathered inside the city college’s library. “This is another piece of a very important mosaic which is a California that works for everyone.”
The governor did not address the second bill in the package, which is more contentious because it would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-funded scholarships and financial aid. That bill, AB131, is in the state Senate.
The legislative package authored by state Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, differs from the federal Dream Act, which would include a path to citizenship for those bought to the country illegally as children.
Critics of the package say granting public or private financial aid to illegal immigrants will force citizens and students who are here legally to compete with them for limited resources. Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, said California’s public colleges and universities have already had to raise tuition fees in the face of recent budget cuts.
“Bottom line is California doesn’t have enough money to take care of its obligations to its citizens right now,” said Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks. “The people, who if they’re lucky enough to have jobs, certainly would like those limited resources to go to their children or grandchildren. They certainly wouldn’t want that to go to people who come here illegally.”
Cedillo said he admired the students without legal status because of the obstacles they have had to overcome. He said allowing students to qualify for private scholarships and financial aid is one step that will help them get through college.
“Public education in this great state and this great country is a great equalizer of society,” he said.
California’s community college and public universities systems support the bill, noting that it affects less than 1 percent of their student population. According to the University of California, fewer than 80 students across its system of more than 220,000 students would be affected by the bill signed Monday.
The California State University estimated that some of the 3,600 students who have permission to pay in-state tuition rates even though they lack legal documentation could be affected by the new law. The CSU system enrolls about 440,000 students.
At least one student who stands to benefit from the California Dream Act said an education will improve his perspective and quality of life even if he’ll still have trouble finding work out of college. Rigoberto Barboza, a 21-year-old from Mexico who studies sociology at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif., said the new law could help him take more courses and finish sooner.
“Education is the only way to free from oppression – this oppression we illegals live with,” he said. “Education allows me to see which laws affect us and how.”
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Comments (192)
Midwest Blonde
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:50pmOk – private funding for whatever is fine – it’s PRIVATE. Whatever is PUBLIC FUNDED, belongs to us taxpayers!!
Isn’t California deep in debt??? How are they going to offer public funding??
Report Post »huckleberry, 1 ea.
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:00pmPrivate funding for education to illegal students then opens the door for them to have amnesty if they are enrolled in ANY type of education program.
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/06/23/dream-act-obama-passes-amnesty-by-executive-order/
Dream Act: Obama passes amnesty by executive order
Last Friday, with no fanfare, no press coverage, and with every effort made to hide his actions from the American people, President Obama enacted the DREAM Act by executive order.
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:02pmSFA! Your tax $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$’s @ work! Luv it!!!
Report Post »Blazeanswerman
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:02pmYou nailed it! It’s private but that unfortunately locks them into the country just like a college deferment locked in kids from being drafted to Vietnam. I am all for illegals getting an education, just go back to where you came from and get one. Or take the step hundreds of thousands are making and get a visa.
Report Post »gobnait
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:12pmNO, private funding is NOT fine if it is provided to illegals at the expense of students who are citizens.
Report Post »H2OBoardem
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:14pmIt’s called “Aiding and Abetting”, and it’s illegal on its face.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:46pmYo Quiero Taco Bell??? California is run over with mexicans who need to go back to their proud country!!
Report Post »Its going to be fun to watch this state sink…I can’t wait to get the hell outta this liberal flipping state who would starve their grandmother to have clean crap energy.
ashestoashes
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:04pmBravo ,bravo! Let‘s keep it in California and let’s let all of those liberal movie stars and nancy pelosi support them. Aren’t they the ones promoting all of this lunacy? They have more money than anyone except for Soros, Bilk , Hilary and the bilderbergs. Since they are the ones promoting “spread the wealth”, why not start with them?
Report Post »They should have enough money to support us all.
dealer@678
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:05pmCan them La Raza Mexicans breed or what
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:11pmAs long as they take Calafornication tax money………..who cares.
Report Post »Their fault they voted for their a$s9 commie Gov. Jerry Brown.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
cemerius
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:34pmYes California keep cozying up to Mexico your new masters…….why don’t you succeed before your economy goes completely in the crapper?
Report Post »Phoenixsoulfire
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:54pmIt is not fine, it is illegal, Your funding illegal people who are here to go to our schools take up money from hospitals and so on and so on and so on and so on just plain wrong
Report Post »robert
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 11:47pmI just read where UCLA has made major cuts due to falling revenue. They refused, however, to cut the many university positions for their diversity program, of which there are many, some of them duplicating others, so dedicated are they to fractionalizing the country to create their rainbow utopia.
The above illegal alien funding looks like it falls within the same realm of fantasy.
Apparently there are those in academia who think we’re going to be able to go on with business as usual financially as do many far leftists in the media and government.
Everybody is cutting back. States and cities are not only laying off entire police departments some are beginning to notify government pension recipients that they’re only going to be able to pay 50% of their retirement pay. The alternative they say means complete dissolution and no retirement pay at all. Next year will be worse. The year after that, worse still.
Instead of concentrating on ways to survive this growing economic storm it looks like the diversity hounds are looking at ways to spend more money. I‘be be amazed if I wasn’t aware of how dense and out-of-touch these self-appointed elitists are.
Report Post »Blue Collar Conservative
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:18amIn other words, “they” are not going to pay for it, you are. All of us “Oppressors” that work our asses off to house, feed, and clothe our families will pay for the sin of being productive. That’s “social justice”, welcome to socialism.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:06amWhen a government cares more about non-citizens then it’s own, then they have become enemies of their own! These lawmakers in CA need to be beaten to death with baseball bats!!! CA is full of nothing but Liberal Marxist SHEEP!!!
Report Post »Edct
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:17amInstead of kicking out the illegal criminal cockroaches now they want to spend taxpayer money on them…..this state has the dumbest people in the US in it.
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:21amCalifornia public schools have only so many available seats/student accommodations. Adding additional non citizen students, legal or otherwise, will require citizen students to stand down or the schools to expand class rooms-more public funding.
Report Post »one years food ration like glenn says
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:07amHey we have to take care of the wet backs… Wouldn’t they do the same if we go to their country illegally ?
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:42amAll about voting base!!!
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:29pmThey aren’t going to offer public funding. There is no reason why that should have been placed in this heading. Even if that was proposed, many of us here in California will stop it.
Report Post »tomcat741
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:59pmErr raise taxes and fees of course we are used to it.
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:58pmI work for the school district in n.CA. We had four furlough days last year and are projecting seven this coming school year. The jobicidal teachers(all progressives) keep voting for people that are driving private sector jobs out of CA, then our pay gets cut. I called my state rep and senator and explained that to them and asked where the money was going to come from to pay illegals but they don’t have an answer. My rep is half mexican, and is the SEIU leader. Talk about screwed up!!! At this point watching them destroy CA is a spectator event.
Report Post »spytheweb
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:17pmDream Act: Obama passes amnesty by executive order?
“If only it were that simple.
In reality, the president does not possess this authority, as unauthorized presence in the U.S. is a civil violation, not a criminal one. Presidential pardon power only applies to federal crimes, described as “offenses against the United States” in the Constitution. As such, “a pardon can’t make someone a citizen or lawful resident,” explains John Harrison, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “Deportation is not a criminal proceeding, it’s a civil process that removes from the country someone who is not entitled to be here.”
Only Congress can change the terms for granting immigration status or citizenship, whether for all immigrants or a subset of people. And that’s why an immigration overhaul has stalled for so many years.”
Anything Obama does is temporary and the next President can turn it back including Obama’s memo to ICE. So the next POTUS can order ICE to arrest all illegal aliens again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/no-obama-cant-grant-amnesty-by-pardoning-illegal-immigrants/2011/12/06/gIQA5S53ZO_blog.html
Report Post »noah2854
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:49pmwhat a stupid crazy people in cali and then they wonder why they are broke .
Report Post »Fins_2theright
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:06pmNot everyone that lives in this ridiculous bastion of liberalism is a flaming lib. Most of it is along the coastline. The further in you go the more conservative it used to be. But now Mexifornia has all the illegals… sorry democrat voters, all through the state. Go ahead and wall it up, but let me get my family out first.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:35pmJust stay in your fly over state, and mind your own business. We Californians will take our state back from the socialists in Sacramento without your help or ignorrant generalistic comments.
Report Post »Lux
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 7:59pmThat and they do not check for citizenship when its time to vote. I tired to show my drivers license and they told me to put it away that they cant look at that. Just sign here and go vote…. So it doesn’t matter if your are a citizen or not if your name is on the list you can vote. I‘ll be glad when I’m out of this lilberal hell hole of a state.
Report Post »foobear
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:46pmThey already can go to public schools and pay in-state tuition. That IS a massive taxpayer subsidy.
I’m not sure why anyone is pretending otherwise.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:10pmI say arrest all the politicians and school officials that are doing this. Charge them with aiding and abetting criminals in the progression of their crimes. Also make it a felony and required minimum of prison time. Then lets see how quickly these politician/criminals are ready to jump up in public and admit their crimes.
Report Post »patriotforlife
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:12pmWhere’s the big earthquake when you really need one?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:43pmExcuse me, but what is it about ILLEGAL you idiots don’t understand??????????????????
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:54pmI agree 100%…but on the flip side, the illegal students I‘ve seen are 100’s of times more interested in learning and bettering themselves than born & bred American kids. They have better manners, know what common courtesy is and have a strong sense of family. Now you can argue that this comes from having to fly under the radar…but it is still just as true.
Report Post »patriotforlife
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:15pm@creestof.. yes very polite when robbing you with gun and knife or selling drugs on the corner.
Report Post »pjgroff61
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:24pmThe real problem is that those born in this country aren’t able to get the necessary funds to either go or continue in college. Unlike illegals they cannot tap uncle Jerry, let alone uncle sammy like the illegals can. Forget about courtesy or being polite amoung the illegals. No the real problem is that those born in this country feel alienated and defeated before they start what with affirmative action, the dream act, and lots and lots of preferences for Hispanics in this country that White don’t havfe acccess to.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:42pmsomebody please give the gov. a dictionary and have him look up the word illegal!
Report Post »Papalima28
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:40pmMy wife came here legally, and I paid out the rear with time and money to get here legal citizenship. Does this mean I’ll get a refund?
Report Post »anunyapete
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:46pmMy wife and I did the same — We LEGALLY obtained a Resident Visa, and just yesterday I mailed in the N-400 form for her Naturalization.
As I’m sure you understand, but most Americans do not, there IS ALREADY A PATHWAY TO CITIZNSHIP. It involves FOLLOWING THE LAW…!!!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:17pmBoth of you can proudly hold your head high. I congratulate you.
Report Post »leary1
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:41pmThank you for taking the proper steps for legal entry. I respect what you have achieved and gone through, hope you continue to follow the laws and achieve far more in your lives God Bless
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:40pmI‘m so sick and tired of the illegal’s getting benefits that lawful American citizens can not have. Why not just get rid of out of state tuiton, all together if it is such a barrier. For all you Rick Perry supporters… he did the same thing.
Report Post »MylostRepublic
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:37pmIn CA., the students will blame the wealthy, and anyone conservative other than what’s sitting right next to them in class—-a class of idiots—spent I month listening to a broken-english speaker congradulate her ignorance by skipping country to have her first born(here). How’ the 30 % increase your good professors’ progressive bosses gleened off of? Kid’s here are fed so much crud they need to be seated on an out-houses just to write their names sex-neutral—and that’s being as polite as possible.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:36pmAnd this state thinks the rest of us should bail them out……….A Big NO!
Report Post »Ella
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:09pmBail them out. Are you kidding me? I think we should insist they secede from the union.
Report Post »Blue Collar Conservative
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:29am@ republicorp
Report Post »It will happen. Those californicators have no intention of paying there own bills( the liberal ones I mean)
boomboom
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:34pmGo For It Cali…I hope you choke on it too!
I can hear Arizona calling from here on he East coast.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:33pmBreak state and federal laws by coming here illegally and we will reward you with free public education, health care and cash to support your family. Now we will pay the kids to go to college. Where is the punishment for breaking our laws to begin with? What a bass-acward country.
Report Post »Aiser
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:30pmRigoberto Barboza 21 yeard old and majoring in Sociology? LOL!!. There is certainly no job prospects for this young man in the future. Of course his two comments he made are obvious what he REALLY means under the surface of those words.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:32pmTime for another Prop 187???
Report Post »leary1
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:29pmso, instead of stopping ILLEGAL immigration, you want to reward them for sneaking in?? this is an approved plan by a gov. of a U.S. state?? no wonder we have sooooo many problems in America, elected officials that condone illegal behavior, and would rather help the illegals as opposed to the citizens of the state that pay his salary….curious isn`t it ???
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:26pmThere is never any uplifting news from this cesspool. Crazy greenies and environuts, Hollyweird, progs, illegals, restrictive gun laws [that dont work]. Wall it off and let the Mexi’s run it, they already are.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:26pm*sigh*
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:22pmYou have countless homeless sleeping under the LA Freeway and CA doesn’t help them, but that was to help La Raza with open arms…. California really needs to slide off into the ocean and be done with it, it is such a worthless, useless state….
Report Post »DGeezy11
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:32pmI think we should just sell it back to mexico… pay off a chunk of our debt and get rid of the dump of a state… just sayin haha
Report Post »AMERICAN FOREVER FOREVER AMERICAN
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:43pmCalifornia isn’t the problem. The problem is the Liberals (Northern California) and the Mexicans that the Liberals think will vote for them.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:52pmDgeez,
Report Post »Nice thought, but what’s the going rate these days for used illegal Mexicans?
It would make for a nicer place to live, but wouldn’t affect the debt one iota.
indy1
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:22pmWelcome to Alta California!
Report Post »anigmanm
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:22pmIf these illegals, criminals feel oh so oppressed by being in this country illegally let them get on the next bus home. Feel free to return the legal way but first leave.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:21pmNot to mention giving them an unfair advantage to education (and in the future jobs that result from that education) and thumbing their noses at legal citizens.
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:21pmEveryday it’s something…… Push Push Push!
Report Post »olddog
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:21pmWonderfull Idea California, there are millions more that will come to your state for a free ride. California sure has some wonderful tax payers, to do this for people there illegally.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:55pmThis is why they will have to cut benefits to legal US citizens. Let everyone have access to your bank account and see what happens. If you can’t pay up front in Mexico, they will let you die on the operating table. Plus you must prove you can support yourself in order to stay there.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:20pmNice. Just another way to garner votes for permanent power. I am fed up with California. As they have been deemed a state “too big to fail” by our government, no doubt when they completely collapse, the entire U.S. will pay for it. This is sickening. Enough is enough.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:19pmLooks like the government of California is reverting back to Mexico whether the legal citizens want to or not!! Anyone who stays in this state is going to have to pay for their unrealistic government!!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:18pmBy the time you get to college, you’re not a child and fully aware of the fact that being an illegal alien is ILLEGAL.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:17pmPut a fence around california and be done with em
Report Post »AMERICAN FOREVER FOREVER AMERICAN
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:24pmCalifornia isn’t the problem. The problem is the Liberals (Northern California) and the Mexicans that the Liberals think will vote for them.
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