What CA Should Do

[DerailAmnesty.com]

Can you imagine if the same illegal alien bar was put in place at Long Beach State, CSUN, CSULA, Fullerton State and UCLA?

The filming opportunities would be endless.

Bottom line, however, GA is doing the right thing that, of course, would never take place here in the Golden State.

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Five Public Colleges in Georgia Ban Illegal-Immigrant Students
By ROBBIE BROWN


ATLANTA — Education officials in Georgia voted Wednesday to bar illegal immigrants from attending the state’s five most selective public colleges, a decision that immigrant rights groups threatened to challenge in court.

Georgia is the second state, after South Carolina, to enact such a ban. The policy requires colleges to check the legal residency of all applicants and prohibits illegal immigrants from enrolling at any college with a selective admissions process. The ban takes effect next fall and applies to the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology and three other colleges.

The ban comes as lawmakers across the country grapple with whether illegal immigrants who attend high school in the United States should be permitted to continue to public colleges — and whether they should be granted discounted in-state tuition. The California Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case over whether giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants violated federal immigration law.

“The higher-education issue is hot everywhere,” said Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Council, a policy group in Washington. “It’s a backdoor way of making immigration policy.”

Georgia’s policy was approved in a 14-to-2 vote by the state’s top educational policy makers, the Board of Regents. It follows a high-profile case in which a 21-year-old college student in suburban Atlanta, Jessica Colotl, faced deportation after confessing to the police that she was an illegal immigrant. She has been allowed to finish her degree, but her case caused controversy after the college, Kennesaw State University, acknowledged that she received in-state tuition. (Kennesaw State is not one of the colleges affected by the ban.)

On Wednesday, immigrant-rights groups protested the board’s decision.

“Let’s not go back to an era when we deny education to a certain group of people,” said Eva Cardeles, 23, a sociology student.

But D. A. King, a Georgia-based anti-immigration activist, said the ban was only the first step. Republican state lawmakers are expected to introduce bills next session to extend the ban to all state colleges and to institute an anti-immigration policy similar to one in Arizona.