The Dean at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, GA gave 17 ILLEGAL immigrates FREE scholarships to the school because they have a willingness to learn.\n\nHell so do I. I'm going to school full time and working full time to pay for it. I don't qualify for any Federal Aide because my wife and I "make too much money" but they can give it to someone who even isn't supposed to be in our country.  What do you think?
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Didn't they have HISTORY class where you went to school??!  I might remind you then, that our country technically is FOUNDED on immigration....if anyone deserves a free ride - it's the Native Americans from whom we stole their land!  I think the point is that they want the immigrants to actually get educated so we don't have just illegal immigrant bums wreaking havoc on the nation....seems logical anyway.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ALCU are anti \nAmerican groups not unlike La Raza.All their agendas are the same.The downfall of this nation and our American way of life.I wouldn't believe any of the reports given by any of theses groups.They are liars and distort the truth to their own advantage.Its well know that the "spin" they put on things are never real facts.I am in favor of whatever it takes to stop the illegal aliens from finding comfort and aid here in this nation after entering it illegally.\nThere are laws Federal felony laws against aiding and abetting the illegal aliens.Perhaps those laws should also be enforced to the letter of the law.\nI don't want to see legal Americans of any nationality harassed,but if you are facilitating the criminal acts of the illegal alien then you are guilty also.\n\nThe federal government has reported that Georgia had the fastest-growing illegal immigrant population in the country. The number more than doubled from an estimated 220,000 in 2000 to 470,000 last year. This year, state lawmakers passed some of the nation's toughest measures targeting illegal immigrants
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I think it is a good idea but not only for basic k-12 I think it would be great for colleges as well, I have an issue myself I went back to school for a semester and the following semester I couldn't attend because the the retarded laws they have on student aid and how you have to make practically nothing to get it sucks. So now I'm out for another year trying to scrounge up money to go back, I would like to just get it over with but that's not going to work. They say get a student loan, but I don't qualify for one of those either. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place and don't like it. I know this isn't on your subject really but was nice to get it out anyway.
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So, let me get this straight, you are blaming an illegal alien (or what you think might be an illegal alien) for your families failure to plan for your own future?  Social Security was NEVER meant to be a catch-all.  It was mean to be a supplement.  (That is why it is called supplemental security income).  All Americans must fend for themselves in retirement.  Lets face it, people my age (45-55) won't get a red dime from SS.  If we are smart, we save. \n\nOur problems are not caused by illegal aliens.  Our problems are caused by ourselves and our own inability to plan.  Your parents made the decision to send you to parochial schools even through they could not afford it.  That is like buying a Porche that you cannot afford when a Chevy will do just fine.\n\nWe are all in charge of our own destinies.  This is the only real right we have in the US.  We make our own decisions and need to accept the consequences of our decisions, both good and bad.\n\nAs far as the illegal.  I don't support their right to be here.  If caught, they should be deported.  However, no illegal alien makes a dollar off of social security and yet quite a few pay into the the system.  Believe me, some of the jobs taken by illegal aliens are very hard work - work that 99% of us would not take (ever been sprayed by pesticides every day? -- that is the life of a farm worker making $8 an hour)\n\nAdditional:  What about YOUR obligation to your mother?  I help out both my mother and grandmother by paying some of their bills, paying for any extras, etc.  YOU have an obligation to your own family.  YOU want to government to pay for something that YOU should be obligated to do on your own.  We all need to be responsible for our extended families and less dependent on taxpayer handouts.  \n\nI am doing pretty well myself, but I buy generic brands as well.  (they are not that bad)
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i'm american... equal right's right??? if they get grants and job training to work here, shouldn't I? but i see your point it would save alot of tax money to just release the inmates from prison sine it's just as bush is saying... so what if they broke the law to get here, they should be able to work. the inmates broke the law to get where they are at, should they get special treatment too, oh wait, they get free college thanks to us tax-payers...God, that means they are staying doesn't it... and just like the inmates they get better food then us as well... the last prison i visited was serving lobster, and steak... I never had money to waste on lobster...
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I feel like it's a slap in the face to every person who has immigrated here legally. What really frosts me is that this is also an amnesty for the employers who have enjoyed the unfair competitive advantage of hiring illegals over the past years. How can an honest business person stay in business when your competitor's payroll expenses are 50% less than yours?
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I was able to get through my undergraduate degree, my MBA, and half of my law degree using my G.I. Bill.  It only really paid for the undergraduate studies (at a state school), but it was a welcome and needed allowance/expense account for the other two (private) schools.  Best deal I ever made.\n\nCongratulations on your Associates.  Keep on plugging along!
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Undocumented Immigrants do not qualify for welfare because of their status in this country.\nSome people may say that their children do qualify if born here in the US. Yes, they do, but don't forget they are US citizens. \nHere where I live, pregnant women that don't have proof of legal residency have to pay all doctor visits adding up to $3000.00 the least. SO WHERE IS THE FREE RIDE......\n\nI am not for the undocumented people who come here and harm others. But the ones who come here to look for a better life for their families, I support. \nDon't you think that if all they wanted to do is harm, they would cross the river through the night and rob the people near it?\nThese people risk themselves to bring food to their family's table. \nI'm disappointed at those people (US Citizens) who live off of welfare because they qualify for it depending on their income, not only the children of these people.\n\nPeople living on the streets are 90% US Citizens who are begging for money. So think.... Wouldn't you think they go and beg for a job at a landscape, restaurant or other low wage jobs. NOPE!!\nThey stand on the streets, begging for money. These people who all of you keep on humilating, go and ask for the job. \nNo, they don't get free education, not from where I am in Illinois. As I know, our property taxes pay for school, alot of these people own house and pay their taxes. We have fee to pay (EVERYONE PAYS) every year, lunch too. I know people who are paying for college out of their pockets "HIGH PRICES".. WHERE IS THE FREE RIDE AGAIN...\n\nWHERE IS THE FREE RIDE... COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO.... It charges, too. \n\nPeople think, we have a big problem, but not with them.. WE HAVE CRACK, METH and LSD that is killing our kids. Cancer is killing more and more people every year. \n\nEveryone is responding to send them back "to their country, NOT JUST MEXICO" Well did you think you will be seperating families, children that have rights as a citizen. Their parents were working for them to sustain them, but now you have IDIOTS who want to seperate them.. Well you will be causing a bigger problem POVERTY is going to rise....\n\nOH by the way, you are all scare that one day, our president will be hispanic  "Nope not just a MEXICAN but a LATINO"..\n\nNO MATTER WHAT ALL OF YOU THINK< THE ONLY PERSON THAT WILL DO GOOD FOR ALL IS GOD not you, me or the president.\n\nONE DAY GOD WILL CHANGE ALL THIS and make it a better place where there is NO RACISM. Sorry to say but... "AMERICA IS RACIST"\n\nAnd please understand that it is not onlye the HISPANICS who come here illegally. It is everybody around the world who has seen poverty to the lowest of its levels. One thing some people here in the US will never get to see.
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yes i agree with you I think the laws should be strict.  but like you said you are a broke, poor college student (I am too) yet we do not qualify for this assistance. The question is why?  I tend to believe some people might get it because of their skin color.....sorry but that what i think.  If they were denied this assistance, they could go an report the government for discrimination.  I go to school and fund my education independently - through loans, scholarships, etc.  I do not qualify for grants, state or federal.  why?  I am broke, poor!  then there are these people that go to school that have kids and get everything payed for.  (I am 23)  I have often thought that maybe my responsibility has not payed off, if i spread my legs and had babies, then i could live in a free apartment, get foodstamps, and get my college education payed for, and wear nicer clothes than everyone else, even people who actually do work. it's sick.  i think a lot of people take advantage of it all
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well no country is indeed totally free , but if you came with political asylum because your life a thread in your country makes no sense that you want to go back to a place you state was dangerous for your self.  i some times spend 14 hours of my days at school and i only have official vacations 1 week a year since i take every session  at school to go fast . but  is  not only hard here every other people need to work hard in every other country to be able to succeed you need to be patient and see things more logical
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Yes, I knew about the voting part but I had no idea about the scholarships. The colleges definitely should not do that since naturalization has nothing to do with how well they learn. They need to change that. But I do agree with the voting part, you shouldn't be able to vote because a citizen of a foreign country shouldn't be able to make decisions for another country.
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Ok....let's get one thing straight.  When my (and many others) ancestors came here long ago IT WASN"T ILLEGAL!!!  Most of them came here not for money or a better life but for life itself (jews, scots, irish).  They had people actually killing them, I mean gun to the head, knife to the heart.  And they came to this country and FOUGHT for this country, losing whole families along the way.  I live in the south and am a proud southerner (that does not mean racist), my family were poor dirt farmers from Tennessee who scraped by with what they could grow or what they could buy with the little money my father (who had to drop out of school at the age of 12 to get a job - only boy out of 11 children - and fought in Vietnam) made doing odd jobs.  Today we have laws in place to stop the over population of our country.  My husband is an immigrant who went through the proper channels.  Yes, it cost money that we didn't have but we STILL went through the proper channels.  They will let you in unless you have something to hide, all you have to do is fill out the paper work and wait.  I know that today time is money and one day can mean the life and death of someone you love but AMERICA is NOT to blame for the state of your home country.  I am all for immigration if it is done legally!  As far as I am concerned, whether you come from Mexico, China, England, France, or Tim-buck-too, if you come here illegally you should be prepared to face the repercussions of doing so.  Breaking the law is breaking the law, period.  No one is above it (with the exception of the Bosh family - or so they wish us to believe).
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The problem is that the legalization elements have been all entwined in the guest worker program which is a really bad program.  One Senator ran projections of how many poor immigrants would come here under the program (on TOP of the current rate of immigration and on TOP of the current illegal immigrants) and he came up with 185 million to 217 million poor immigrants in the next 20 years.  Even California Senators Boxer and Feinstein who have been pushing for legalization as their main goal in the program voted against this element of the program. (They lost.)\n\nCan  your school and neighborhood fit and support that many poor immigrants?  Mine can't. Do you see that many jobs around? I don't.  This is a big business idea to keep wages depressed for unskilled and semi skilled labor into the indefinite future.\n\nIf the border is truly secured, I want to deport felons and want illegal immigrants to actively start learning English as a condition of legalization.  However, as you say, they are already here.  The problem is that if you say you want legalization people now say 'I want the guest worker program' and most of them don't have a clue what is in it.\n\nIf there is a way to frame the bill during conference into qualified illegal legalization plus MAJOR border security, I would be in favor of it.  To tell the truth, though, I'd rather have no bill at all than the Senate Bill in its current form.
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The more you have saved, the less aid you get. My dad, for example, has a well-paying job and there is no possible way that the government would give us aid. \nA good way to help him get scholarships in the long-term is if he did a sport he knew really well. There was a girl at my high school who won state 3 times, and broke state records in swimming. She ended up getting a full scholarship to The University of Notre Dame to swim. If he puts his heart into a sport he really likes, something similar may happen.
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Well it's pretty simple but clearly you are just an ignorant ass. Let me ask you one question. Are you a Native American? \n\nThey are probably here for the same reasons your family came to be here persecution, hardships, a shot at giving themselves and their families a better life. Do you realize the chances and danger they face trying to get into our country? This should be a complement to all of us. We have such a wonderful country that people are willing to take incredible risks just to be here. Should we punish people for wanting a better life?\n\nI will also say I am a car salesman. Let me tell you I'm all for them getting Social Security cards. Most of the Hispanic people (I'm assuming this is what you are targeting) I have met in through the business work very hard and long hours so they can provide for their family. Most have at least Tax ID's so that means we are collecting tax's from them so why not allow them the rights and freedoms we enjoy. It's a shame that I cannot sell them vehicles because they do not have SS cards. Also I have several banks that will only loan money to Hispanic people. Do you know why? They do so because the Hispanic community has a much better rate of paying their bills unlike most of the "Americans".\n\nI have one final question for you. If we didn't allow anyone into our country how would that benefit you?
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If someone is doing something else illegal in usa, and we help them, it's a crime called "aiding and abedding." So I guess they want to make the same law apply for illegal immigration. Seems pretty fair to me. \nThe students are probably protesting coz they don't want their parents, other relatives or friends going to jail or deported. On the other hand, the other citizens of the country are demanding something be done about ILLEGAL immigration.\nMy relative is a legal immigrant. He had to do a lot of paperwork and pay money to come here. It's fair any foreigner has to do the same.
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From what I have heard it is working but Georgia isn't the only state that is imposing new laws restricting service to Illegal immigrants.\nI personally don't know why they need them if these all these great illegals are coming just to work. ha ha\nBig lie every state is subsiding these illegals. \nNo poor person can live on low wages. How can a anyone legal or illegal or citizen support a family on low wages:\nhousing, food, clothing, medical cost and still have money left over. \nFor Mexican they send money back to Mexico. Unless they are levitating someone is subsiding them. The tax payer. Now you do the math and you can figure out the economic of this. \nMexico benefits at a cost of the remittance of the money back from illegals. Totally from all illegals $54 billion a year. Great for the Mexico economy. To break it down just for Georgia, you can call your state finance dept.