| Trio Share Nobel Economics Prize Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides won the 2010 Nobel economics prize for developing theories that help explain how economic policies can affect unemployment. online.wsj.com |
The next trend to sweep the south | Michael Tomasky Two days ago the Georgia board of regents passed a resolution barring students who came to the US illegally from studying at most of the state's public universities and colleges.The issue flared up last spring, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, linked to above:Debate over illegal immigration and higher education resurfaced last spring after Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant attending Kennesaw State University, was arrested on campus for a traffic violation. College officials disclosed they had charged her in-state tuition. State rules require illegal immigrants pay the more expensive out-of-state rates.Giving illegal immigrants an education at in-state rates is against federal law. But naturally, just addressing that wasn't enough. So at that point, after Colotl's arrest, research was undertaken to see just how seats that could be hosting the fannies of good homegrown Georgia boys and girls were being given over to night crossers. Result, according to NPR: out of 310,000 students enrolled in all the state's colleges, about 500 are classified as undocumented.The Georgia ban right now is partial, limited to the better schools. The expectation is that it will be extended to all state schools and technical colleges. There's a governor's race right now, and both the Republican and the Democrat support the new policy.In this effort, Georgia follows two other states. Can you guess? I did, while I was listening to the radio last night. South Carolina and Alabama. Surprise surprise.See, you just have to take a stand against these things. First it's traffic violations. That's how they start. But you never know what these people can get up to. Honestly. This is morality, or "morality," without sense. Without compassion, too, which goes without saying, but without sense. Lots of these people probably came over with their parents when they were little. Some, possibly many, likely had little or no choice in the matter. But here they are.If kicking them out of college meant they were going back to their country of origin, that would be one thing. The policy would still be heartless, but at least it would make a kind of sense. But of course, in all likelihood, they're staying here, because their lives are better here whether they're business majors or construction workers or gardeners or whatever.Given that, it makes no sense to prevent them from bettering themselves. And then one day building toward citizenship, as Democrats and a small number of Republicans would prefer in re immigration legislation.So that's the choice. If the liberals had their way, these folks would get college educations and become taxpaying citizens in 15 years. Under the conservative diktat, they'll be college dropouts and will always be illegal, not fulfilling their own potential or contributing the maximum they could to society. But it's more important that they be punished, see? Look for this policy notion to sweep the south. I'm sure they're madder'n'a'hornet down in Texas that they didn't do it first.US immigrationMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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