Immigration: You don’t have a heart!

I’ve read, and re-read Immigrationrhetoric disconnected from reality, and its counter article Amnesties reward law-breaking and have to say both are disappointing. If this is the best or popular editorial writers you have than USA Today needs to clean house starting with these two. My Primary article for discussion for this week is the first article, Immigration rhetoric disconnected from reality, in which the unknown author writes about more about defending Gov. Perry than actual illegal immigration.  The article first starts off as Gov. Perry knowing what “real-world immigration” issues are, because Texas shares a border with Mexico. Our unknown author states “Perry… runs a state with a 1,200-mile border with Mexico… he has to wrestle with real-world immigration issues, so when he says building a fence along the entire border is a dumb idea, it's worth listening” than uses this to jump to an issue, of rather illegal immigrants should pay “in-state” or “out-of-state” tuition.  Illegal Immigration is a hot button topic in this country and what better time to discuss it than now. Aside from defending our Governor, let’s look at what is reported here. On the subject of the border-fence this opinion piece says “focus heavily on areas where crossers actually go” an idea I can get behind if a fence is what our State wants. Why spend money on areas where there are no crossings? A fence where heavy traffic of immigrants enter the US makes more sense. On to the second point, this brings up college tuition. Should immigrants pay in-state tuition? Gov. Perry would like for illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition if they make it to higher education levels. Even the unknown author states “Texas, and the nation, are better off if they're educated and productive members of society.” I do agree that educated citizens would leave this nation better off. As for in-state tuition, for immigrants, I’m against. Purely from the standpoint that Gov. Perry, to me, assumes that Texas Universities are the place to be. UT Austin charges $30,000 for out-of-state and $8000 for in-state tuition. My former school, Concordia, charges both in-state and out-of-state near $20,000. My friend Ashleigh, who attends Baylor, is charged, $28,000, the same as out-of-state tuition. Another friend of mine, Marcos, attends Texas State, his tuition is $6000, half of out-of-state tuition. Basically in-state tuition, only effects those who attend public universities, for private universities, tuition is nearly the same.  I know I live in Austin, but Austin, you need to realize that UT is not the only University in town, you just happen to be the biggest. For immigrants wanting to attend a private university this issue of tuition becomes a non-factor. Furthermore taken from Hispanic Magazine.com, the number one school for Hispanics was Princeton University. From Hispanic Outlook.com the number one university was, Florida International University.(I'm aware that Outlook cited Texas schools are schools for Hispanics) With that information in-State tuition for immigrants, illegal or legal, is not relevant on the basis that Texas Schools are the only schools Hispanics attend. 

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