Reply #13: I did. [View All]

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Ideally, there shouldn't be any border controls beyond health screenings and perhaps passport checks, in which case there obviously won't be any illegal immigrants. However, until that happens, immigrants, legal or illegal, need to have all the rights that residents have. Therefore, I see no reason why immigrants in California should pay the out-of-state rates for UC.

As a bonus, think of it as a kind of a need-based scholarship: immigrants get into UC and pay rock-bottom tuition (for a tier-1 university), thus they get college degrees from excellent universities, thus they get an opportunity to pull themselves out of poverty, which is the case fro almost all illegals.