Approved by 72% of the voters in Arizona, Proposition 300 prevents students who are not legal U.S. residents from paying in-state tuition at state schools, receiving state funded financial aid, and participating in adult-education classes offered by the Arizona Department of Education. It also requires institutions
to report biannually the number of illegal students who apply for in-state tuition, state funded financial aid or adult education classes.

“We expect the costs and changes in how we do things to be significant,” said Matt Ortega, director of governmental affairs for the [Maricopa County] district, which has about 278,000 students.

Mr. Ortega says he worries that having to spend money determining every student’s immigration status will limit the amount of funds the district will have to use for classroom instruction and other academic priorities. Arizona Colleges Say Ballot Measure on Illegal Immigrants Will Be Costly by Sara Hebel, The Chronicle of Higher Education 11/17/06

But given that in-state tuition is less than half of out-of-state tuition, it looks to me like reducing the in-state numbers could actually increase college revenue. With illegals unable to suck state funding from legitimate students, more money will be freed up to use for “other academic priorities.” Like say, giving American students the college education for which they’re actually paying?

A slew of bills are in preparation this week by Texas lawmakers for the 2007 session — and it’s not looking good for illegal immigrants. Here’s the rundown according to the New York Times:

1. State Representative Burt R. Solomons, (R) from Carrollton, outside Dallas, introduced a bill to deny state licenses to people without proof of legal residence.

2. Mr. Solomons also filed a resolution to put the House on record, as he put it, as “demanding the federal government do what they’re supposed to” to control the border with Mexico and to authorize the state attorney general to sue Washington to recoup the state’s costs.

3. Representative Leo Berman, (R) from Tyler, would deny state benefits, including welfare payments, food stamps, disability payments, public housing and unemployment assistance to the children of illegal immigrants – even if they are American citizens.

4. Mr. Berman also wants to tax 8 percent out of electronic money transfers from immigrant workers in Texas to people in Mexico and Central and SouthAmerica. Federal law may not permit it.

5. Dianne White Delisi, (R) from Temple, introduced a bill to require state agencies to report the cost of services like hospital care provided to illegal immigrants.

And while I wonder what has taken Texas so long to wake up and smell the tamales, I laud the effort now being put forth. “Want to know what it’s all about?” asked Rep. Solomons. “Absolute frustration.” (Texas Lawmakers Put New Focus on Illegal Immigration by Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, November 16, 2006)

David Frum suggests that Mike Pence may have been the victim of the infamous Pence Plan, that he may have been “suckered” by someone in the Open Borders Lobby.

(This would be Helen Krieble, see VDARE.com’s reportage here.) If so, that would make him too naive to be an effective minority leader. But Mickey Kaus, on Slate.com, believes that Pence is not too idealistic to be minority party leader–he’s not idealistic enough. Meaning he’s genuinely dishonest and treacherous. Here’s what Mickey has to say:

Hmm. I rise to the defend Pence’s cynicism and guilefulness. On Laura Ingraham’s radio show, he gave the impression that he’d abandoned the Pence plan (which would reward illegal immigrants by letting employers arrange for them to become guest workers–the technical wrinkle being they’d have to leave the country briefly or perhaps just touch base at a border station). But in this Tuesday interview with Mary Katharine Ham it becomes clear Pence still backs the Pence Plan, and indeed intends to bring it up again if the opportunity arises.

So if Pence is either naive, (David Frum’s version) or sleazy, (Mickey Kaus’s version) he’s not going to make a good minority leader–and either way, the Pence Plan may be back.

Sorry! I am not referring to a new DVD from the producers of Girls Gone Wild…it would be less offensive I assure you!

College Republicans at Washington State University put up a 24-foot chain link fence on campus to demonstrate their support for the 700- mile fence on the U.S./Mexico border that was recently approved by Congress.

And the campus went nuts–well, a few professors went nuts that is.

After calling the students “racist” one professor, John Streamus (send him mail), called the students something vulgar involving the word “white.”

He declined an interview by the AP but wrote in an email:

“It is a violently racist symbol, no different from Nazis carrying a swastika through a Jewish neighborhood or the KKK rallying around a Confederate flag in a black neighborhood.”

What a dork! Seriously, how pathetic is this guy? How pathetic is this argument?

We have a problem…millions of people are sneaking across our the border from Mexico and settling–illegally–in the United States. As a symbolic gesture of support, students at WSU build a 24-foot version of the fence that will be used to hopefully stop the problem.

According to this nutbag, this symbol is “no different” than the symbols affiliated with organizations that tortured and murdered people?

You have got to be kidding me! These illegal immigration freaks have no shame!

Streamas and the other professor involved in the conflict, David Leonard (email him), are professors in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies.

Good grief…what is the course work for that degree?

110 Haitian or Jamaican: A Study of VooDoo Nations
220 White Men as an Endangered Species
330 The Koreas: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Let us suppose one has this lovely degree…what the HELL do they do with it?

Richard King is the Department Chair…email him and ask him…and maybe ask him about his ridiculous staff!!