"Few immigrants use tuition law"

From the KCStar:

When Kansas passed a law in May allowing certain noncitizen immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at state colleges, critics envisioned a flood of those students.

Now that the fall semester is under way, the flood looks more like a trickle...

"This law is new to Kansas and we didn't know what to expect," said Kip Peterson, a Regents spokesman. "Looking at the numbers now, there are 30 students in Kansas pursuing higher education that otherwise might not have had the opportunity."

And, there are millions of people around the world who now see that they can get a discounted college education even if they come here illegally. No doubt that will serve as yet another incentive to many of those people.

And, of course, the money spent on those 30 students could have been spent on our own citizens rather than citizens of other countries.

The article also mentions that Kansas is being sued by FAIR over their explicitly anti-American law.

(This is a KCStar report that the AP picked up under their byline and reprints here and here.)

See also "Kansas City Star: Let U.S. citizens eat cake".

Comments

The enthusiasm of officials to impose legal disabilities on the citizenry relative to foreigners, and specifically to foreign criminals marauding from one public subsidy to another, shows an unmistakable hostility on the part of the officials towards those whom they are obliged not to betray. That university system needs to be shut down, to show them their responsibility.