NC Reversal on Admitting Undocumented Immigrants to Colleges

See my short post over at Citizen Orange updating earlier reports of the North Carolina Attorney General's recent decision to bar children of undocumented immigrants from NC colleges.

According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Fathe, er, Homeland Security doesn't actually require such schools to track students' immigration status.

Therefore, now, according to a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10, such students are not necessarily barred.

As I note over at CO, I'll be really surprised if this ICE opinion doesn't attract unwanted attention from the always-wrong Right. After all, they just can't resist even a tiny, symbolic opportunity to convert hardworking, promising new US residents into lifelong bitter enemies.

Slamming the Schoolroom Door

Think Progress reports:

"The North Carolina Attorney General’s office decided yesterday that undocumented immigrant students cannot attend public colleges in their state. This decision to cut off opportunity for one group of North Carolina residents affects even those children who have gone to North Carolina public schools since kindergarten, and cannot remember ever living anywhere other than North Carolina."

So, your nation's long-term interest depends on (a) an educated, competitive, and loyal next generation, and (b) winning the hearts and minds of the world for democracy.

Given the choice between (1) educating children of undocumented workers in this country, treating them with kindness, and giving them the best possible start in life, or (2) pitching them out of school on their backsides, their American Dream in ruins, themselves humiliated, broken-hearted, and enraged, what do you do?

Well, if you’re a “compassionate conservative Christian,” the answer’s obviously (1), right? Who among these compassionate conservative Christians would fail to remember Jesus’s teaching: “If you do it unto the least of these, you do it unto me”?

I don’t recall seeing the footnote, “except undocumented Mexicans.” I mean this was a guy who hung out with robbers, whores, Republicans . . . .