RCCC: Admitting immigrants nothing new here
Friday, November 30th, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
Staff and wire reports
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s community colleges must admit illegal immigrants as long as they are 18 years old and high school graduates, according to a legal opinion that reverses a 2004 rule that gave campuses the option to say no.
The ruling will not change procedures at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and 36 other community colleges statewide that already permit these immigrants to enroll.
But 21 other community colleges have used their discretion to deny admission to illegal immigrants.
And a Raleigh-based group — Americans for Legal Immigration PAC — announced Wednesday its opposition to the open admission policy.
“Gov. Mike Easley is the next national poster boy for supporting illegal aliens …” William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, said in an e-mail press release. “We are calling on the governor to close the door to illegals in our colleges immediately because this violates existing federal law, and we should not be training illegal aliens for jobs they cannot legally hold!”
In August 2004, the governing board of the community college system let each college choose whether to admit illegal immigrants.
Community college attorney David Sullivan wrote in a memo to all campuses earlier this month that giving colleges such an option runs counter to the system’s open-door admissions policy.
Before 2004, undocumented people weren’t supposed to enroll in degree programs at all. more…
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