Immigration
As news consumers across the nation and the globe are aware, on Monday, September 26, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education approved a policy granting in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants who attended local high schools. As recently as this spring, the General Assembly explicitly declined to join the twelve other states…
Determining whether it was a legitimate exercise of authority for the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education to make certain illegal immigrants eligible for in-state tuition at RI public colleges and universities takes us into a murky borderland in the civic landscape occupied by “public corporations” and “quasi-public entities” that have been created…
In discussion of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, commenter Russ illustrates why public debate so often gets stuck in conflicting assertions and animus: …dividing the total operating costs of the University of Rhode Island by the number of full-time equivalent students suggests that the university has to make $20,615 per student. Wrong, but hey let’s…
Incrementalism is a beautiful thing. E-verify rescinded earlier this year. In-state tuition passed yesterday. Now the latest: drivers licenses. Governor Chafee said Tuesday that he is looking into the possibility that the state might issue driver’s licenses or driving permits to illegal immigrants. Responding to questions about a vote by the Board of Governors for…
Last night, with the approval of RI’s chief executive, Lincoln Chafee, the Board of Governors of Higher Education decided to act in lieu of the General Assembly and implement a policy of offering illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates for the state’s public universities. That makes Rhode Island just the fourteenth state to be so generous,…
A panel of the Governor’s Board of Higher Education has recommended that Rhode Island offer in-state tuition to non-residents of Rhode Island. If you’re not a US resident or citizen, is it possible to be a Rhode Island resident, by the legal definition? I guess according to the Board of Governors, you can. Even more…
This is unacceptable. The Obama administration’s plan to review the cases of 300,000 illegal immigrants currently in deportation proceedings to identify “low-priority” offenders has sparked a debate in Washington and beyond. Officials said that by launching the case-by-case review, they are refocusing deportation efforts on convicted felons and other “public safety threats.” Those who have…
You may have heard that illegal immigrants are returning to Mexico because they can’t find work in the United States. Mark Krikorian notes that, while that is surely a factor, other shifts (less conducive to the liberal storyline) are in play, as well: Buried in the story, and not highlighted in the headline or the…
The mayor of Boston is trying mightily to expand the list of crimes that undocumented immigrants are (tacitly) permitted to commit. (H/T Howie Carr.) Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is now reversing course and threatening to withdraw from the Secure Communities program. That’s a big change for Boston, where police Commissioner Ed Davis had been a…
William Dimitri, of Johnston, makes an interesting suggestion regarding in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, in a Providence Journal letter that does not appear to be online: On the one hand, those fortunate enough to earn in excess of $250,000 already pay a substantial amount of taxes, but that fact seems to escape the grasp of…
