State anti-immigration group targets Easley
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
From staff reports
November 29, 2007 3:15 am
The Raleigh based national organization ALIPAC–an acronym for Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee–is taking aim at the administration of Gov. Mike Easley for the recent finding that undocumented aliens should be allowed into N.C. community colleges.
“The Easley administration is known nationally for giving hundreds of thousands of licenses to illegal aliens, an issue that NY Governor Spitzer was pummeled for even considering,” the group said in a press release.
ALIPAC takes creit for helping to defeat in-state tuition for illegals in N.C. in 2005.
The group claims that the order from N.C. Community College Attorney David Sullivan is false in claiming that this move will not cost state taxpayers because the students in question will be charged out of state tuition.
“Unknown to most North Carolinians, provisions were secretly placed into law years ago that qualifies illegal aliens for in-state tuition for community colleges in N.C.,” the press release claims.
“The public was enraged in 2005 and polls showed over 80% public opposition to the legislative push for HB 1183 ‘in-state tuition for illegal aliens’,” said ALIPAC spokesman William Gheen. “When Republicans discovered that the Democrats had already placed in-state tuition for illegal aliens into law for community colleges, they tried to change the law and the Democrats stopped them.” more…
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