Lower tuition rate for undocumented immigrants <b>["illegal aliens"]</b> sought

Posted Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:50 am

Let's play newspaper editor and correct the problems in the article "Lower tuition rate for undocumented immigrants sought" by Elise Castelli of the Boston Globe. My corrections are in brackets and in bold:

Advocates for [illegal] immigrants and refugees yesterday renewed their demand for cheaper, in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants ["illegal aliens"] at state colleges...

[flyers sent opposing providing] tuition breaks for undocumented students ["illegal aliens"]...

...The in-state tuition bill... would allow [illegal] immigrant students who have lived in Massachusetts for three years and graduated from a Massachusetts high school to pay in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges, regardless of their immigration status. [...race-baiting by Jarrett T. Barrios deleted...]

Eight other states have laws that permit illegal immigrants [use of correct term noted] to attend school at residents' tuition rates.

[...personal touch added via an] East Boston High School graduate [who] immigrated to Boston from Peru when he was 11 ["whose parents illegally immigrated, perhaps in expectation of 'immigrants rights advocates' using a sympathetic press to push through a cheaper-educations-for-illegal-aliens-than-for-U.S.-citizens bill"]

Please send an email to ombud@globe.com and suggest they make these changes on their own in future articles.

I also posted a message about this to Boston.com's forums.

Comments

John S Bolton (not verified)

Sat, 12/11/2004 - 01:48

A traitorous foreign aid program like this will draw in more foreign criminals. America is borrowing over $500 billion a year from abroad just to maintain the alternative welfare orgy that currently exists. To pretend that we can afford to send the third world to college, is a corrupt fantasy. The effect of such incentives for instant disadvantaged minorities to move here and add to the quotas of affirmative action cases, can only be to, each year, increase the racial conflicts from where they are now. The malice of officials and their scholars would desire this exact result; how else to find the excuse needed to establish dictatorship? Would they do better to pretend that an eco-spasm is imminent, unless bureaucrats are granted power to avert it?