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Only if you're one of those people who habitually keeps a couple of race cards up his sleeve to play at every opportunity. I never mentioned race or legal status -- I only mentioned RESEARCH-BASED correlations between educational attainment and crime. Here is one of many such studies for your perusal. JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie
You do realize that the study you cited was published in 1956 and that social norms have changed dramatically in the last 65 years?
You guys are in massive debt. They just INCREASED tuition 8% for students?
Why ON EARTH are you paying for illegals to go to school?
Can I get a democrats perspective on why this is a good idea, I already understand the Republican minority perspective.
IMO it makes no sense
We are *already* paying for the illegal immigrants' education, just not at the college level. The Pew Hispanic Center reported that from kindergarten to 12th grade, the illegal immigrants make up at least 10% of the student enrollment. The Washington D.C. based Center of Immigration Study confirmed it to be at 13% and cost the Californian taxpayers at least 9 billion dollars a year to provide education for the illegals.
Estimating The Costs of illegal immigration - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/16/3191413/estimating-the-costs-of-illegal.html - broken link)
MOD CUT
It's simple: the more educated our populace is, the better off we are as a state and as an economy. If we don't support community colleges and give poor first- or second-generation immigrants a chance to become good, contributing members of society, then they simply won't. They will resort to crime and then we will pay even more to deport them or keep them in prison.
This argument has no merit and it is not so simple.
The most likely scenario is that the illegal immigrants that have gone off to college and graduated with a diploma and secured a good paying job -- would be that their contribution in taxes would be slightly above zero, paying their fair share of tax money back to the documented taxpayers for all those years they provided the larger bulk of funding for the illegal's education.
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But, MOD CUT will say, if we give them the carrot of opportunity, then they will come in greater numbers. Well, I say to you, welcome to America. That's exactly why your ancestors came here in the first place. And by saying "I can have opportunities, but they can't," you are, in fact, being anti-American and seeking to strip this great country of the finest quality it has.
In any event, we have a glut of white-collar professionals at the moment and for the foreseeable future. Subsidizing the education of persons not legally entitled to be here only increases the magnet effect. There will not be work for them when they graduate.
It seems that a good many of our immigrants start their own companies rather than trying to find jobs.
Ah! California right-speak. They're not just immigrants. They're YOUR immigrants. Kinda like pets, huh?
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