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what is the difference between this and amnesty?
apart from the utter lack of practical application, that is (oh, and the fact that it takes taxpayer money and not only gives it to someone who, in fact, does not deserve it, but takes that money away from an actual legal citizen who, you know, can actually legally get a job after they get out of school).
It is obvious that anyone with a 4.0 should recieve the scholarship over someone with a 3.5.
.I appreciate your honesty on the issue. I am distraught that people in our nation have sunk to the point that they would give opportunity to criminals from foreign countries, rather than to honest hard working people who are legal residents
In an egalitarian world, that would be the case. But I believe in most cases, those with a criminal past (and present) would be ineligible for tax-funded scholarships. So STAYING here illegally would be a disqualifying factor.It is obvious that anyone with a 4.0 should recieve the scholarship over someone with a 3.5.
I don't know that anybody "deserves" to have taxpayer money given to them.
Maybe so, but I know folks that don't deserve them. Namely those who haven't paid any taxes into the system that go to funding education or providing these scholarships.
These scholarships are paid for with state funds. Illegal aliens do generally pay, at the least, sales tax and (directly or indirectly) property tax. Probably a few others as well.
So I guess that means they're safe from your list.
A bunch of self-styled "conservatives"
I'm willing to bet that the funds are from property taxes, and a large portion of illegals don't pay property taxes either because they don't rent, or they live 20 to an apartment.
Either way the odds are that they haven't paid into the system, or haven't paid the same amounts as citizens have.
Better known as illegal aliens.As I have already explained I am talking about children who spent all or most of their childhood in a public school already.
Sorry, not that simple. Building a giant wall in and of itself won't help anything except the giant ladder industry. You have to address what drives them to enter illegally as well. Hint: publicly provided tuition doesn't help.Once again the simple solution is to secure our borders so we don't have these problems.
Focusing back on Huckabee's positions... Huckabee says no amnesty, no jobs, and not even driver's licenses.
It seems a bit ridiculous to use taxpayer funds to create the world's most-educated gardeners, housekeepers, construction workers, and farm laborers.
What are the illegal alien young people with college degrees going to do? Based on Huchabee's positions, they will not be able to get any professional job that requires licensing or bonding, nor will not be able to work for the government or get any job that requires a security clearance.
Except that these scholarships don't take into account amount of taxes paid when deciding among citizens. In fact, it's entirely possible that there could exist a pair of children, one a citizen and one an illegal alien, where the latter's parents have actually paid more in taxes than the former. Extreme poverty (of the 20-to-a-house variety) isn't limited to illegal aliens, and the extremely poor don't necessarily have to work too hard to avoid paying much in taxes (and there do exist illegal aliens who are not particularly poor).
At that point, by this argument, would this hypothetical illegal alien child be more deserving of the scholarship than the citizen (assuming the same or better academic performance, of course)?
Your argument works much better when you just stick with "law's the law" and accept that some may not agree with you.
Mike Huckabee picked up an endorsement from Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen Project. Well ... so much for that "soft on illegal immigration" bit.