Now you’ll have to forgive me if I’m not entirely getting the facts straight; politics interest me as much as Michael Cera movies, so I will be the first to admit that most of the things I think I’m aware of, have mostly come via half-heard news broadcasts, and skimming through daily news.
But apparently, the State of Georgia’s Supreme Court made a ruling that stated that unauthorized immigrant students would not be eligible for in-state tuition. To me, this seems kind of like a no-brainer; if you haven’t lived in Georgia for a substantial period of time, why should you get in-state tuition rates? This is irrelevant if the students are coming from Nebraska or Nigeria, if you’re not a resident, why should you get resident benefits?
Apparently, not everyone seems to think it’s as clear cut as I do, as dumbass students do what dumbass students do, which is protest things that they are probably as clueless to as I am, and get arrested for it.
But yeah, I don’t see why it’s up for such contentious debate. If I were a concerned citizen, I think I’d be a little against the idea of for example, a Hispanic family crossing the border illegally, landing in Georgia, never doing whatever it takes to become legal and documented, and then the children growing up and expecting in-state tuition – and getting it? That seems a little bit like using underhanded means to get to a position to where benefits can be capitalized upon, which to me, is not okay.
Colleges are seemingly competitive enough to get into, but I don’t think it’s necessarily right to include a pool of potential students who don’t even exist as U.S. citizens to compete against. It’s like paying and registering to run in a marathon, but then a bunch of people show up on race day to run unregistered, and expect accolades if they do well.
Ultimately, this is a matter that doesn’t concern me one iota, but I don’t understand why people are protesting this matter; maybe that’s very conservative of me sure, but seriously, the phrases “undocumented” and “unauthorized” typically have a deceiving connotation to them, and deception is a negatively perceived idea, so why should anything inherently negative be privy to such a useful concept such as in-state tuition?
