Quote Originally Posted by bfskate26:
As for your assertion that things won't change, they certainly will, and you provided me with the evidence to prove so. You claim this law was in place before the ruling by the CA Supreme Court, and this new ruling just put it on the forefront of debate. You proved my point that more people, including illegals, now know they can get lower tuition at CA public universities. This will prove to be motivation, and encouragement, for illegals to pursue an education in CA public schools.
The standards of the schools are exactly the problem. By the influx of more, new illegal immigrants admitted public universities, more American citizens will be denied admission. If they begin accepting more "higher qualified" illegal immigrants, it will artificially raise the university standards, bumping out the American citizens on the fringe of the admissions. This is another added variable to the cases of students who are difficult decisions for boards of admission.
Also, many public universities have incentives to "diversify" their student body. These incentives force them to use nationality as a primary deciding factor in the admission process. I'm sure you can understand how the importance of accepting a certain amount of minorities (along with this bill), will have a negative impact on Caucasian-American students who just barely meet the universities standards. It is widely known, and accepted, that universities will be favorable in acceptance and financial aid to minorities rather than Caucasian-Americans.
With the influx of more illegal immigrants in CA public schools, which I hope we can agree will be the result of this publicized bill, the American citizens who are subsequently rejected will be the ones receiving the "harm" from this bill.
The fact that you live in Massachusetts and didn't know about the law is one thing.
If you think that illegals in CA and Mexico didn't know about the law, you are sadly mistaken.
If schools now have an influx of highly qualified illegal immigrants and thus, can raise their standards, in the words of the immortal Bobby Brown, that is 'their' perogative.
As far as diversifying, I do have to chuckle. If you think that CA schools have a mandate to deversify more than they already, (look at the stats for CA schools), I don't think we can debate the issue. CA schools already have higher rates of those that identify themselves as hispanic and oriental than other state schools.
And sorry, but we cannot agree that this law creates more of an influx since it is nothing new.
The injury I am looking at is current, not prospective based on things that we cannot ascertain.