Immigrant tuition bill defeated

[ckramer]

Massachusetts House members last night decisively defeated a controversial bill to extend in-state tuition rates at public colleges to undocumented immigrants, effectively killing the measure for this year.

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Democrats were helping Republicans hating immigrants in this case.

[951-Riverside]

1. Are we talking about legal or illegal?

[phusion]

3. "undocumented" n/t

[phusion]

2. the bill was very restrictive

"The legislation would have applied only to those students who graduated from a Massachusetts high school after attending it for at least three years and signed an affidavit affirming that they intended to seek citizenship."

[pinerow]

4. Seems to insure a new class of people...undereducated with no

vested interest in society...the great majority of these kids have been in the U.S. all their lives...they know nothing else but to be what they were brought up to be...Americans in every sense of the word...I wonder when the new Alien and Sedition Act will be introduced...sheesh..