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elleng

(131,282 posts) Tue May 5, 2015, 08:24 PM May 2015

Judge: Dreamers can get in-state tuition in Arizona [View all]

Source: azcentral.com

Young immigrants granted deferred deportation status by the Obama administration are eligible for in-state college tuition, a Maricopa County judge ruled Tuesday.

The decision from Superior Court Judge Arthur Anderson comes in a lawsuit filed by former Attorney General Tom Horne against the Maricopa County Community College District. Horne contended that so-called "dreamers" offered deferred action status were not legally present in the U.S and could not get state benefits because of a 2006 voter-enacted law known as Proposition 300.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2015/05/05/judge-arizona-dreamers-can-get-in-state-tuition/26947787/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

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Judge: Dreamers can get in-state tuition in Arizona [View all] elleng May 2015 OP

This will gets lot of cheers from those who want to give illegals privileges Americans can't have. candelista May 2015 #1

Because the "illegal" lives in Arizona and is such an Arizona resident that can receive Arizona Suji to Seoul May 2015 #2

An illegal alien is an illegal resident. Larry Engels May 2015 #3

An artificial border dicatates first and second class citizenship and personhood. What happened to Suji to Seoul May 2015 #6

Aren't all borders "artificial"? Sgt Preston May 2015 #13

Yes they are and yes I do. Look what white people did to Africa with the borders of those countries. Suji to Seoul May 2015 #14

CA students have to pay 150% of AZ tuition to attend AZ public universities. Beauregard May 2015 #4

Because those students from foreign countries do not have the options the CA residents have Suji to Seoul May 2015 #7

I give you credit for responding to that comment, Suji asiliveandbreathe May 2015 #5

I'm in Raul's district. I know all about the Latino community. I had parents demanding that I turn Suji to Seoul May 2015 #8

You were, and are, in the right place at the right time asiliveandbreathe May 2015 #9

As my country has gotten more self-interested, racist, anti-intellectual and just plain ignorant Suji to Seoul May 2015 #10

Interesting - my son retired 21 years navy chief asiliveandbreathe May 2015 #11

Here in Zhuhai, the students are good, but I teach at a posh international school Suji to Seoul May 2015 #15

This doesn't involve H1b visas so nobody around here cares. Throd May 2015 #12