Free College Education For Illegal Immigrants?

In the State of Nevada it may very well be happening. The State Treasurer is against it; the State Attorney General hasn't ruled yet.

I can understand providing illegals with a basic (read: K-12) education. It's really a difficult choice as they are here because their parents are engaging in an illegal behavior, but I don't think it right to punish the kids for the parent's behavior. That being said, if the parent gets deported, the kids need to go with them.

But they have no right to a free college education at taxpayer expense. College is an earned privilege. No one is "entitled" to go to college, citizen or not. It has to be earned.

If an illegal graduates from a Nevada high school and decides that they want to go to UNLV, they should have to go back to their home country and apply as a foreign national. Get accepted, get the proper visa documentation and then come back.

If you qualify for a scholarship, great. You've earned it. But you are not entitled to a scholarship fund that requires that you be a resident of the State of Nevada. I can't get it if I go to school there as I'm a resident of Florida.

Just because you lived there and graduated from a Nevada high school does not make you a resident. It is wrong for someone to be able to profit from an illegal act. I can tolerate (barely) putting you through the public school system at taxpayer expense when you're here illegally, but I won't stand for you taking tax money to obtain a college education.

A basic education is necessary to give the kid a chance at success in their home country or here if they decide to legalize themselves. A college education is a luxury that many of our real citizens cannot afford.

Nobody tell Gray Davis about this. He'll be giving away free UC Berkeley educations with every driver's license issued to an illegal alien.