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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Students Sue California For Giving Illegal Aliens Lower Tuition Rates

The State of California is prohibited ("prohibited" meaning "not allowed by law") to offer tuition to illegal aliens not in this country legally. But not only did they do that, but they offered lower tuition rates than American citizens.

Heads should roll for this one - but, in the meantime, lawsuits they are a'flying against this crap.

Students sue for tuition parity with California illegals

Students from 19 states yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from California officials for charging them significantly more than illegal aliens pay to attend state-run colleges.

The 42 plaintiffs say California state lawmakers and the University of California board of regents knowingly violated a federal law enacted in 1996 that says any state that offers discounted in-state tuition to its illegal aliens must provide the same lower rates to all U.S. citizens.

California has a "unique" statute barring discrimination on the basis of geographic origin, said lead attorney Michael J. Brady.

Some students in the University of California system could be eligible for as much as $300,000 in total damages, he said.

The plaintiffs' attorneys say the lawsuit was filed in a state court in Yolo County on behalf of about 60,000 U.S. citizens who have paid out-of-state tuition to attend public higher-education institutions in California since 2002.


Now, for that "money quote" - in this case, a portion of the law passed by "California lawmakers" (i.e., Downies, who control that state's legislature), which indemnified the college heads who actually ran this shit:

Mr. Brady said California officials knew their tuition law that took effect in 2002 was unfair and illegal.

"Former Governor Gray Davis initially vetoed it, saying it violated federal law and that it would cost California $65 million [in damages]," Mr. Brady said. "He sent it back to the state Legislature with that warning, but they re-enacted the same law," which Mr. Davis eventually signed.

Mr. Brady said administrators of the University of California system also recognized that the state law was invalid, and they refused to implement it unless they were "given immunity." As a result, he said, California lawmakers enacted an "immunity statute," which says that if the state tuition law is declared illegal or unconstitutional, schools in the University of California system would not be held liable for retroactive tuition differences.


Now, imagine if the Republicans in Congress passed a law which allowed one group to get a better deal (taxes, etc.), and, knowing it might be struck down, also indemnified those who carried it out from lawsuits.

The ACLU and their leftist minions would be in court day after day and holding press conferences. But the ACLU defends illegal aliens and terrorists, so it must be okay.



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