Elizabeth Pezza - staff writer for the Harvard University Crimson newspaper - offers "Living in the Shadows/Their hopes of immigration reform repeatedly unfulfilled, undocumented students endure an effectively unforeseeable future" (thecrimson.com/article/2010/4/1/undocumented-students-harvard-act). It's a PIIPP-ish article (see that link for what that means and examples) that, instead of doing news reporting, advocates for the anti-American DREAM Act. That bill would let illegal aliens take college educations away from U.S. citizens and, despite having over 3500 words, Pezza doesn't even hint at the side-effects of the bill.

Needless to say, a Harvard education is extremely valuable. Yet, those like Pezza - including Harvard University itself - when faced with the choice between giving a Harvard education to an illegal alien or to an equally-qualified U.S. citizen, would turn their backs on their fellow citizens and choose the former:

In its efforts to recruit the best students from the nation and the world, Harvard is one of very few universities with the financial resources to offer merit-based, need-blind admissions standards for all students, including those ineligible for federal financial aid... [After a lobbying campaign, President Drew G. Faust] ended up publicly endorsing the DREAM Act in a letter to federal lawmakers last spring, a step that was in line with support from the Association of American Universities and The College Board, and has since been replicated with support from presidents at other schools, including the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford.

For every illegal alien enrolled at Harvard, it would be nearly statistically impossible not to find an equally- or better-qualified U.S. citizen. Harvard is applying other criteria, and obviously that breaks the anti-American way.

She also references Harvard student Kyle de Beausset and:

Edward Schumacher-Matos, who directs the Harvard Inter-Faculty Initiative on Immigration and Integration Policy and Studies, believes the primary reason to pass the DREAM Act is that it is in the country’s best interest. “We have invested so much in training and educating this group of young people,” he says. “If they’re good enough and have responded enough to be able to get to go to college, then we as a country need these people and should want these people.”

Taking educations from U.S. citizens in order to give them to foreign citizens who are here illegally is a direct attack on the very concept of citizenship itself. That might be in some peoples' interest, but it's not in any way in the U.S.'s best interest. The investment we've made in those students can be put to good use in their home countries, some of which would give them free or low-cost educations. And, once again, when dealing with millions of students there are always going to be a large number at each bracket of test scores and achievements.