RALEIGH, N.C. — The State Board of Community Colleges has voted to allow illegal immigrants to enroll at North Carolina campuses starting next year. The board voted Friday to approve the plan, allowing undocumented immigrants to attend the system’s 58 campuses if they’ve graduated from a U.S. high school and pay out-of-state tuition. Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton was the only board member to vote against the plan. He did not explain his reasoning during the debate. The policy committee’s chairman, Stuart Fountain, says the children of parents who came into the country illegally shouldn’t be punished for the federal government’s failure to deal with their legal status. Illegals can win admission to the campuses after April 1, 2010. ALIPAC Responds
N.C. Community Colleges To Enroll Illegal Immigrants
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Sep 182009
Jan 052009
“In short, although these children have built their lives here, they have no possibility of achieving and living the American dream. What a tremendous loss for them, and what a tremendous loss to our society.”
A win for Immigrants Rights and the DREAM Act
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Dec 072008
A little-known 41-year-old community organizer and GOP immigration attorney, knocked off nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson in a stunning upset in Louisiana’s Second District to become the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress. In recent years Jefferson has been fighting scandals and a federal indictment for money laundering, bribery and misusing his congressional office, which he denies. Last year the FBI reported finding $90,000 in marked bills in Jefferson’s freezer. Cao came to the United States as a child in the 1975 evacuation of Saigon and earned degrees in law, physics and philosophy. His new district has only 11% registered Republicans, but with about 80% of the votes counted, Cao was winning 53-43. Cao is also an immigration attorney, a MORE
