Wanted: Straight talk on immigrants and college
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
By Staff
Perdue, McCrory won't own up to facts on a sticky issue
Washington's pitiful failure to reform immigration has left the Tar Heel state facing sticky questions. One of them: whether to allow undocumented residents to enroll in community colleges and universities so long as they pay higher, non-resident tuition.
The biggest question is not whether adults who broke the law to come here ought to go to public colleges. It's whether graduates of N.C. high schools who were brought here as young children by their parents should get access to higher education.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama delved into that N.C. issue in an interview with WUNC radio this week. Obama said he favored allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in community colleges. (more…)
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