Baltimore Sun Hypes 'Illegal Immigrants Celebrat[ing]' New Law Granting Them In-state Tuition
Last Friday the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. The bill had already cleared the state senate and Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has said he will sign the bill.
Today's Baltimore Sun devoted sympathetic front-page coverage to illegal immigrants who now "celebrate the approval of in-state tuition for Maryland students regardless of immigration status."
"I want to be a part," blared the front-page headline to Nick Madigan's A-1 story. Below the headline is a picture of "Missael, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who lives in East Baltimore."
"[H]is interest in getting an education was fired by a visit to the Johns Hopkins campus," the caption notes.
“I said to myself, ‘I want to be a part of this one day. I want to go through this experience.'"
Madigan devoted the first five paragraphs to Missael, omitting his last name, before talking about illegal immigrant Sarita in paragraphs six through nine.
Former Governor Robert Ehrlich (R), who vetoed a similar bill in 2003, was then brought in as a convenient villain in the 10th paragraph:
CASA's executive director, Gustavo Torres, said in a statement issued by his office that passage of the tuition law represented a victory "many years in the making," a reference to the bill's tortuous path through the legislature. First introduced in 2002, the law was approved in 2003 and then vetoed by Republican Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., who was the governor at the time. In 2007, a similar bill passed the Maryland House, only to stall in the Senate.
Granted, the bill that hits O'Malley desk is "more limited than previous versions," Madigan noted, adding, "Students must attend three years of high school, their parents must pay state income taxes, and they must start at a community college. After two years, they can apply to one of the state's four-year universities."
All the same, there is still strong opposition to the bill, and not just from Republicans, who account for only 43 members of the House of Delegates and 12 members of the Senate. A total of 66 delegates and 20 senators voted against the tuition bill, meaning a fair number of Democrats voted in the negative.
Even so, Madigan waited until the 14th paragraph to quote a Republican opponent of the bill:
After the law's passage on Monday night, opponents remained committed to its undoing. "I don't think Americans should have to compete with an illegal immigrants for a job," Del. Herbert H. McMillan, an Anne Arundel Republican, said Wednesday. "And I don't think we should be offering enticements for people to come here illegally. If you build it, they will come."
McMillan said it was bad enough that Maryland had offered driver's licenses to illegal immigrants for several years, a practice that ended in 2009. Two years earlier, he said, "about 260,000 illegal immigrants applied for those licenses," almost overwhelming the Motor Vehicle Administration's ability to cope. Now, he said, an "underfunded" educational system could find itself in similar straits as a result of the tuition law.
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Let illegals Vote?
Submitted by libBuster on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:21pm.
Next up for the left, voting "rights" for illegal immigrants.
huh?
Submitted by ladeflippinda on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:23pm.
And no one at the Sun sees anything wrong with this?
This is
Submitted by sam12663 on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:28pm.
Ridiculous. Where is the Federal government on this? If the people getting in- state tuition are truly illegal, why aren't they being arrested and deported? The legislature and Governor should be charged with aiding and abetting criminal activity.
This is not surprising
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 7:19am.
The left has usurped our language, and has taken the position that "illegals are legal". So now -- the argument has shifted to "you (conservatives) have to first prove this to be false, then we can talk".
Just like queers. All of a sudden, the leftist ground truth is "there is such a thing as gay marriage", and so the argument now begins with "why are you mean conservatives taking away a human right that is recognized the world over"?
And my question is -- why are we allowing the left to frame the language?
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Liberals truly are Satan's angels...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:31pm.
working against me. When I read articles like this some truly evil thoughts go through my mind. It is just so maddening.
I wonder what the class sizes
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:36pm.
I wonder what the class sizes will be and how soon my property taxes will take another bit hit to help fund this experiment.
DIxie, I'll see you soon.
What shape, fiscally is
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:37pm.
What shape, fiscally is Maryland in? We in Texas are having to tighten our belts quite a bit.
Has Missael been arrested and deported yet?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 6:53pm.
NO? Why not?
Wow, you think it's bad in
Submitted by VBaxter on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 7:18pm.
Wow, you think it's bad in Maryland? Not only do we have that same law here in California, but during the gubernatorial race, the Republican candidate was accused of hiring an illegal immigrant as her maid.
THE MAID WAS ON EVERY CHANNEL BEING INTERVIEWED EVERY DAY AND NO OFFICIAL DEPORTED HER. She's probably still living here, too. What has happened to this country?
Ron Paul 2012
crimes
Submitted by goldbough on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 8:34pm.
So am I to assume cheating on taxes will be overlooked? Being an illegal immigrant apparently has zero consequences and even some benefits. Have we been declared a lawless country and I missed it?
Apply for immigration, as my ancestors did
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 8:56pm.
"I want to be a part of this one day. I want to go through this experience."
Then I suggest you do it the American way, by applying for immigration, just as MY ancestors did 4 generations ago. No one offered them "tuition," even when they became citizens. No one offered them "sanctuary" ether. But, since I am alive to testify, they did pretty well. If it worked for them, why can't it work for YOU? They were no more "rich'; than most other immigrants of the day. As a matter of fact, they were what, even in those days, most people would have been calling "dirt poor." Just to illustrate how poor they really were, the first home my immigrant ancestors ever owned was built, by their own hands, out of dirt, straw, and sticks. A feat, by the way, that most University graduates today couldn't even accomplish despite 4 years of "higher education."
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Harboring illegals can get elected officials arrested
Submitted by SnapTie on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 8:56pm.
http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-8... Directly from homeland security and INA.
Ummmm
Submitted by Harbinger041 on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 9:54pm.
the entire time that I was reading this story, the only thing that I could think of was:
"What is he DOING here?" (about Missael)
Why is this even an idea that popped into someone's head? much less made it all the way into law... Missael should not even be in this country. By definition, his presence here is illegal.
Why has he not been deported?
What is he DOING here?
Common Sense for Our Times...
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Side Note
Submitted by Harbinger041 on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 9:55pm.
side note: Nick Madigan should ashamed of himself. He interviewed a known criminal (let's face it, engaging in activity of any kind means you are breaking the law) and did not do anything about it. (I know that this side note makes me sound a bit naive, and I am not, but the fact that this is even being discussed just FLOORS me.
Common Sense for Our Times...
http://currenteventsandcommonsense.wordpress.com/
Here's an idea. How about
Submitted by gvik on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 10:49pm.
Here's an idea. How about letting them have in-state tuition rates after they have legally immigrated?
Wow, that would actually make sense!
Oh geez, sorry. I was using that logic thing again. I often forget that we must reward those who come here for a better life and choose to bypass those pesky legal methods that millions of others chose to go through with. The proper, legal channels are all time consuming and hard and stuff.