Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Monday, November 14, 2011

Face the Fact, Legal Citizens are Second Class - The Illegal Alien Scholarship

The Illegal Alien Scholarship | FrontPage Magazine
By Arnold Ahlert On November 14, 2011

Leftists are well-versed in the politics of incrementalism. And nowhere has there been a greater effort to realize the fruits of such incrementalism than in the arena of immigration. Thus it is no accident that the Left has made every attempt to relegate the phrase “illegal alien” to the dust bin of history and replace it with “undocumented immigrant.” Such a change implies that being in the country illegally isn’t so much against the law as it is a mixup of paper work. Such calculated obfuscation begets political expediency on many fronts. One of the primary fronts is education. With respect to taxpayer-funded college for illegals–which now includes scholarships–the state of California provides a case in point of how a state gets from “here to there” over 25 years.

Beginning in 1985, in Leticia A. v. Board of Regents, the Alameda County Superior Court ruled that the Education Code disallowing “undocumented” students from establishing residence was unconstitutional. As a result, such students could then establish state residence for tuition purposes for both the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems.

Proponents of the decision subsequently formed the Leticia A. Network, comprised of teachers, counselors, students, parents and various rights activists for the purpose of publicizing the ruling and making sure it was followed. A few years later an employee named David Paul Bradford filed a lawsuit against the University of California, claiming he was forced to quit for failing to implement Leticia A. In 1990, Regents of California v. Superior Court (Bradford) established that all illegal alien students enrolling at UC after June of 1991 would be classified as non-residents. In 1992, the California Student Aid Commission followed Bradford and stopped awarding Cal Grants to those students. The UC policy was also adopted by California Community Colleges (CCCs) even though they weren’t mentioned in the Bradford ruling. In 1992 Bradford was extended to include CSU, which appealed the decision and lost. They began implementing it in 1995.

In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, also known as Save Our State (SOS) by a whopping 59-41 percent margin. The law barred illegal alien students from attending all public schools in California, from kindergarten through college. Judge Mariana Pfaelzer immediately blocked the law, noting that it might not be constitutional because it failed to provide due process or a hearing before individuals were denied benefits. Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, who was re-elected with 55 percent of vote, supported the measure. At the time the number of illegal alien children attending California public schools was estimated to be between 300,000 and 400,000, costing the state half of the $3 billion it spent on illegals in general out of a state budget of $40 billion.

In 1998, Pfaelzer issued her final ruling on Prop 187, gutting the law. In a now-familiar refrain she ruled that the regulation of illegal immigration is the federal government’s responsibility. Outgoing Gov. Pete Wilson vowed to appeal, but in 1999 incoming Democrat Gov. Gray Davis announced the state would drop it. In 2000, an attempt to overturn Bradford was then undertaken. AB 1197 would have eliminated non-resident tuition rates for all “long-term California residents…regardless of citizenship status.”

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