New fund pays tuition for undocumented students

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Source: Politico

Former Washington Post CEO Don Graham unveiled a new $25 million college scholarship fund for undocumented youth Tuesday, saying that helping to make college affordable is a step in the right direction while Congress weighs comprehensive immigration reform.

“I’m not wise enough to know exactly what the country should do on the larger questions of immigration,” Graham said in an interview. “This, we can do.”

The fund, called TheDream.US, will award 1,000 full-tuition scholarships in the next academic year to students living in the U.S. as temporary residents under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama administration program.

The scholarships will only go so far: The Migration Policy Institute estimates 240,000 college students in the U.S. are either currently here legally via deferred action or eligible for the program.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/don-graham-immigration-scholarship-fund-103119.html

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1. I think the money would be better spent on documented kids.

But, hey, rich people can do whatever they want. It's their money.

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2. Do you suppose it's a secret plan to get us all at each others' throats

and leave the 1% alone?

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3. Perhaps. If the donations are a front for that, that'd be awful.