|
|
Back to Home Page
April 18, 2007
Illegal Aliens Get Tuition Help From Student Group "For Francisco Alvarado, a 22-year-old undocumented immigrant enrolled European Official Criticizes Mexico Border Fence "European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday criticized Frank Morris: More Immigration Harms Black Americans "For many African-Americans, today's debate over immigration evokes a to |
at Cal State Dominguez Hills, a college education would be impossible without some financial assistance. In his two years at the school, Alvarado has received about $4,000 from the student organization Espiritu de Nuestro Futuro, which raises scholarship money for undocumented students. 'That's why I came to the United States, with the purpose to go to college, to receive higher education, to make my dreams come true,' said Alvarado, vice president of Espiritu. 'I came for the opportunities,'" the LA Times writes. "'Nobody wants to hurt the kids, but when you come down to it … there are only a finite number of seats available,' said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks tighter border controls. 'When you start admitting illegal immigrants, you are essentially denying somebody else's child the opportunity to attend the school.'"
U.S. plans to extend barriers along its border with Mexico, saying immigrants should not be treated like criminals. 'A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that the European Union members like,' Solana said at a news conference in Mexico City. 'We don't think walls are reasonable instruments to stop people from crossing into a country,'" the AP reports. "In October, President Bush signed a bill calling for 680 miles of new fencing to be built along the border, despite objections from the Mexican government."
bitter sense of deja vu. In 1965, a new immigration law restarted mass immigration just as African-Americans, emerging from long years of segregation, were poised to enter the economic mainstream. In the decades since, millions of immigrants – legal and illegal – have settled here, causing the immigrant population to balloon from fewer than 10 million in 1970 to about 36 million today," says Frank Morris in the Dallas Morning News. "The current wave of immigration has been especially destructive, coming at a time of severe economic restructuring caused by globalization and outsourcing. Unlike previous immigration cycles, this massive influx continues with no natural end in site. What's more, since immigrants are likely to have little education, immigration is significantly adding to the economic challenges of the underclass by importing competitors for jobs."