Such arrogance demanding lower tuition when they aren’t even in this country legally! I don’t want to hear any bleeding heart crap that they were brought here when they were little blah blah. Someone explain to me that if we know they are here illegally then 1) why are they permitted to go to college? 2) where did they get the ID needed to attend? Last time I checked you’re asked for a social security number on a college application 3) where are they getting the financial aid to afford college in the first place? You know they aren’t saving the money up especially at four times the instate rate @ $4000!
I’m so tired of people in this country illegally carrying on like they are entitled to everything from food to low college tuition.
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Undocumented students push for change to tuition policy
by Heather Waliga
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Dozens of undocumented students at Wake Technical Community College are pushing for changes to a policy that requires them to pay out-of-state tuition.
The students are forced to pay the out-of-state fees, which are nearly four times the cost of in-state tuition, even if they graduated from a North Carolina high school and have been living in the state for some time.
Five students were arrested at Thursday’s protest after repeated warnings to leave the campus. Wake Tech officials said the group didn’t file the proper paperwork to protest at the college. The five individuals, ranging in age from 17-27, are all charged with second-degree trespassing.
Meanwhile, undocumented students moved their demonstration to the highway demanding equal tuition rights.
“I think it’s discriminatory because they give us the opportunity already to be able to study here. We work really hard,” said undocumented student Jose Rico.
Rico is one of the students who was arrested. He has been in community college for five years, lived in North Carolina for 10, and graduated from a North Carolina high school with a 3.9 GPA. Still, Rico is undocumented and forced to pay out-of-state tuition.
“It’s almost $4,000 per semester. So I was able to go for like a year and a half. And I have to be taking one class per semester at a time, so it’s been a long process for me to go to the next step,” Rico said.
Rico said he also received a letter from Wake Tech last spring stating that undocumented students couldn’t register for classes until one week after everyone else...more