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Opportunity grants bill unjust and unwise

Letter date: 
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Letter publisher: 
Statesman Journal
Letter author: 
Elizabeth Van Staaveren
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A bill pending in the Legislature, SB 932, authorizes opportunity grants to illegal alien college students, forcing young citizens to compete with illegal aliens for scarce tuition-aid funding.

This bill is very unjust to citizens and unwise for the state and the whole country.

Hard working Oregon citizens are struggling to create a better life for their children. Their tax dollars should not be used to provide tuition aid for illegal immigrants, especially when only a small percentage of eligible and needy citizen applicants can receive the opportunity grants annually.

Illegal alien parents are responsible for the situation these illegal alien children are in; the children and their parents must recognize that responsibility. They have no right to demand benefits here. They are citizens of another country and should look to that country for help, or return there and follow established procedures for immigrating here legally. Better yet, they should return to their own country and help it improve living conditions so that there is no urgency to leave.

Citizenship and nationhood are important concepts and must be honored.

Toleration of and acquiescence to illegal immigration mean open borders and the death of a nation.

Elizabeth Van Staaveren

McMinnville
 

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