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Public college tuition schedules are usually at least two-tiered. US citizens that meet a state's residency requirement pay "in-state tuition" rates that are often substantially less than non-resident  "out-of-state tuition." Some state colleges include a tuition schedules for international students.  Non-resident fees used to be  typically paid by foreign students and American students whose legal residency is in another state.

The reason state public colleges and universities charge higher tuition for non-residents is because residents have been subject to past taxation to support that state's public educational institutions.

 However, illegal aliens and their lobby groups began to demand that states allow them to pay the lower "in-state" tuition rates despite the fact that they are foreign nationals, not U.S. citizens, and have no legal right to even be in the U.S.  In order to satisfy these illegal aliens turned political activists, a number of states, including Ohio, began to change their laws. Legislators passed laws or "Board of Regents" used administrative law to carve out this new education subsidy for illegal aliens.

Many American students attending out-of-state schools think it is unfair that illegal aliens, which are primarily Mexican nationals, are given privileges that they don't get.  A student who is a US citizen but goes to a college in another state might have to pay $20,000 more in tuition than an illegal alien student at the same school. California was sued for charging illegal aliens the lower in-state tuition rate, but the US Supreme Court ruled that California has the legal right to charge illegal aliens the lower tuition rate.

Open-border ethnocentric advocates such as La Raza, MEChA, LULAC, and others,  have been lobbying for years to pass what is generally known as The DREAM Act.  The DREAM Act is a bill that has been introduced (and reintroduced)  in the U.S. Congress for years.  The purpose of the  DREAM Act is to legalize millions of illegal aliens. One  benefits of the bill is that it would allow illegal aliens to pay lower in-state tuition in every state.  The DREAM Act is great for illegal aliens but a nightmare for U.S. taxpayers who must subsidize their education.

Why should US taxpayers be forced to subsidize the college education of millions of illegal aliens when many Americans can't afford to send their own children to college?

Wouldn't it be nice if Americans could sneak into another country, pay no taxes, and get  a free K-12 grade education worth $150,000.00 which is paid by your host nation?  How about a subsidized college education to the tune of another $40-60,000.00? 

That is exactly what is happening in the US.  Illegal aliens are residing in the U.S. and then going to school here on your dime. Then the illegal aliens have the nerve to protest and vilify U.S. public officials and citizens who want the federal government to enforce our immigration laws.

The bottom-line

    Illegal aliens should not get special treatment in our public or  private colleges and universities.  In fact, they should not even be admitted.  As illegal aliens, they have no legal right to be in the U.S.  Why are some states allowing illegal aliens the privilege of attending U.S. taxpayer supported schools? The answer is that too few Americans know what is going on and even fewer are doing anything about it.  The groups that support spending U.S. tax dollars on a multitude of benefits for illegal aliens are lobbying government officials 24/7 to get favorable treatment through administrative orders, executive orders, and laws.

    In my opinion, the best way to help "educate" illegal aliens is to teach them about the rule of law. The first lesson should be that the U.S. will aggressively enforce the existing immigration laws. Unfortunately, our immigration laws have been inadequately enforced for many years going back decades.  Where past administrations were primarily passive in immigration law enforcement, the Obama administration actively worked to undermine and dismantle immigration law enforcement.  In fact, the Obama administration did its best to protect illegal aliens. The Obama Department of Justice ignored sanctuary cities but sued cities and states that attempted to stop illegal migration in their jurisdictions. The Obama administration also supported a general Amnesty to maintain his Hispanic political base.
  
My  "DREAM" is that the American public will wake up and tell their public officials to kill the "DREAM Act" and start enforcing our existing immigration laws.

 

Find out how politicians sold 'tuition equity'

 to public with half-truths in Oregon

Read PolitiFact article here.

 

Ohio specific articles about in-state discount tuition for Ilegal Aliens

9-5-17 Colleges express support for undocumented immigrant students affected if DACA ends

4-8-17, PBS.org, Debate over in-state tuition for students in U.S. illegally

7-29-15 Wall Street Journal Some States Resist Offering Tuition Breaks to Undocumented Immigrants

9-22-13 The Columbus Dispatch Bill would overturn in-state tuition for some undocumented [illegal alien] immigrants

7-31-13 Ohio's public colleges must offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants [Illegal Aliens] with temporary legal status, regents say

2-18-13 Immigration Activists Pushing For Tuition Equity In Ohio

6-27-12 Tuition Equity Bill Would Give Illegal Aliens Discounted Tuition (A more accurate headline)

6-20-12 Ohio lawmakers proposing new legislation on immigration

 

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