ASU Scholarship Program for Non-Citizens Is Revived
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A controversial scholarship that benefited Arizona State University students who are in the country illegally is being revived.
Since the news media reported last month that the special scholarship’s funding had run out for the 2008-09 school year, private donors in the Valley have stepped forward, ASU President Michael Crow said. ASU officials are working with a third-party group to provide scholarship money.
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A fund called the American Dream Fund Coalition has been set up and is being maintained by the non-profit group Chicanos Por La Causa.
He estimates the cost at about $3 million a year, adding that the money will come from private sources and not state funding.
For the past year, 207 undocumented immigrants who graduated from Arizona high schools have received private scholarship money through the ASU Foundation.
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When Crow announced the scholarships last year, he met with criticism from some state lawmakers who questioned whether the strategy complied with the law. ASU officials have maintained the scholarship is legal because they use private, not state, money.
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Crow said the students, who ASU calls “special-class international students,” are victims of the bad public policy of various countries, including the United States. Not all the students are from Mexico, he said. Some are from China and other countries, and they lack proof of citizenship or legal residency. “It turns out somehow they’ve ended up in the United States, and they have citizenship nowhere,” he said.
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(Posted on March 7, 2008)
Comments
Many of these students are from well to do families in Mexico or China and simply show up for admission and scholarships, leaning on the generosity of the University and the tax payer to pay their way. The students’ financial status is impossible to accertain since their funds are outside the US. Meanwhile the tuition increases yearly for instate tuition. You will never read a sob story from the Arizona newspapers about all the instate students unable to get a college education because there was no scholarship monies available. For the taxpayers there is no mercy, no sympathy, so recourse if you don’t have the money for tuition.
Posted by Tim at 6:14 PM on March 7
So it’s OK to be openly racist (favoring “immigrants” that belong to la raza and discriminating against all others) but mere accusation of being a racist (defined as white prejudice against non-whites) is often enough to politically and assasinate the accused.
Posted by A Reader at 9:05 PM on March 7
I know of at least 6 caucasian women who have married illegal immigrant men with hispanic sounding surnames that have parlayed this into an affirmative action/tuition assistance/scholarship bonanza.
Who is going to question them? And if they do question them, they will have LA Raza, LULAC, Chicanos por La Causa et al after them.
Diversity is a big business here in the college town of Tempe, AZ home of ASU.
KCS
Tempe, AZ
Posted by KCS at 1:13 AM on March 8
Will we ever learn? What in heaven’s name are people thinking?
why has the world’s greatest superpower disintegrated into a
multicultural, diverse, everybody welcome no matter your legal status, background, or political agenda? We have become a balkanized mess, with criminals walking our streets and cultures that will never harmonize with ours. Just look at London for a microcosm of what we will soon be facing. We can look forward to more from whichever candidate gets elected.
Posted by June at 11:08 AM on March 9
I took ASU off my list a long time ago. The campus is a filthy, concrete mess, with all the tell-tale signs of unmonitored sprawl. After I took a few clarinet lessons there, I knew I could not go there and be happy, despite the good music department-it’s just not a safe place.
On the plus sign, I’ve heard that it will soon be legal for students to arm themselves on Arizona campuses. Good thing, since I’ll probably go to the University of Arizona, down in the really dangerous part of the state, Tuscon.
Posted by Jacqui in AZ at 9:17 PM on March 9
American universities through subsidies are extensions of central government will.
And ASU President Michael Crow is an extension of the globalist CFR.
Just add water (boarding) for the complete tyranical experience.
US Elites hate America. Or do American elites hate the US ?
Posted by James Drew at 11:43 PM on March 9
He estimates the cost at about $3 million a year, adding that the money will come from private sources and not state funding….for the past year, 207 undocumented immigrants who graduated from Arizona high schools have received private scholarship money through the ASU Foundation…
ASU needs to have all government funding CUT OFF!…Crow is SPLITTING HAIRS!…ASU has the OPTION of REFUSING the funding by this private “non-profit” group!…this group also needs to have their “non-profit” status taken from them!…ASU is UNAMERICAN and VIOLATING our laws!
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When Crow announced the scholarships last year, he met with criticism from some state lawmakers who questioned whether the strategy complied with the law. ASU officials have maintained the scholarship is legal because they use private, not state, money…
This fund is NOT legal…when it gives scholarships to ILLEGALS!
Crow said the students, who ASU calls “special-class international students,” are victims of the bad public policy of various countries, including the United States. Not all the students are from Mexico, he said. Some are from China and other countries, and they lack proof of citizenship or legal residency. “It turns out somehow they’ve ended up in the United States, and they have citizenship nowhere,” he said…
ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL!…”special-class international students”?…catchy title but it does NOT change or alter the FACT that they are here ILLEGALLY!…this man should be FIRED and CHARGED with HINDERING immigration laws and HARBORING illegals!
Posted by Suzan Donoghue at 12:39 PM on March 10