It’s angered conservatives and is considered by critics to be a slap in the face to poor, legal students.
But Prescott College in Arizona doesn’t seem to mind the criticism, and are proudly bragging to the media about their plan to charge current students to give away free college to illegal immigrants.
The private college is has announced they will tact on to its current tuition a fee, intended to fund a scholarship to pay for illegal immigrants to attend.
The school has added the $30 fee to its current $28,000 annual tuition to setup the Freedom Education Fund, an illegal immigration scholarship for “undocumented” students. The fund was developed in part by students and faculty from the Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts divisions.
For taxpaying students, this fee will be just another in a long line of costs attributed to illegal immigrants.
According to research conducted by The Heritage Foundation, “In 2010, the average unlawful immigrant household received around $24,721 in government benefits and services while paying some $10,334 in taxes. This generated an average annual fiscal deficit (benefits received minus taxes paid) of around $14,387 per household. This cost had to be borne by U.S. taxpayers.”
Students are able to decline paying the fee, but have to speak up first. If they do nothing — or are unaware they can opt out — the fee will be automatically added to their tuition.
The director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, Jessica Vaughan, told Fox News that she considers this an insult to poor students that live in the country legally.
“It is beyond absurd that this college is going to force all the students to subsidize the education of a student who is in the country illegally,” Vaughan said. “It’s a shame these students and faculty don’t have the same drive to help some of their fellow citizens who can’t afford college and who are forced to compete with illegal workers for job opportunities.”
As many 18-25 year olds would say today: It’s all good. Time to wait in line for that new smartphone. So what my degree can’t get me a minimum wage job. Not tolerated to give an opinion.
Sso when is this going to stop Period taxing and making We the People pay for illegals here?
I don’t believe the photo attached to this article is of Prescott College, but rather a photo of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), a different college in Prescott, AZ.
We need a President and Congress that will put an end to illegal immigration! I won’t hold my breath though.
We need Donald Trump for president. He knows what needs to happen for this country to be great again
You got that right. Please get out and vote.
Yes he does!!
Do not vote for Cruz, because his plan for the border is not going help at all. Trumps wall will help.
TRUMP IS OUR MAN AND HE WILL PREVAIL AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN 2016 AND THINGS WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS YOU CAN COUNT ON THAT.
I think trump would knowing that we don’t have Obama giving everything to the Mexican and his own kind
When I retired from thirty five years in the Navy, I went back to college to get another degree in Environmental Science. We had retired in Washington state from Florida. I had to pay out of state tuition rates until I was a resident of the state for a year. I understood the rules and conformed.
Permitting these illegal aliens to not only pay instate rates, but to attend free is a slap in the face to all legal taxpaying residents. Liberalism is destroying this once great country. “Free stuff” are the words of the day. As Maggie once said, ” Socialism is great until you run out of other peoples money.”
Thank you for your service. I was in USN 4 yrs from Jan 69-Jan 73. I agree with you about our once great country going down the tubes.
It’s a private college. They can experiment all they want with fees and services. Their “success” is both their level of graduation and their attendance numbers.
This article is not news. The American taxpayer already pays for pre-school, day care, grade school, high school, college, university, outreach programs, English as a second language, and private tutoring for illegal aliens! American students go into debt for much of their adult lives just to get a degree…but they also pay for everybody else’s’ education to get it! Why aren’t the youth of this country raising their voices to stop the nonsense that undoubtedly will affect their quality of life? Liberalism is the root cause of this situation and should be rejected by every current and future student in America today!
Not to mention the free breakfest, lunch, and weekend backpacks for the little bambinos.
Boycott the freaking college on enrollment day………see how long the college can pay its liberal staff on illegal money. “Here’s 50 pesos for you, Professor Alinsky………”
Agree to “come back to school” when the college can guarantee that a degree in good standing will guarantee a job of good value.
Otherwise why throw $110K and four years down the tube?
Go to a community college and get a tech degree, make a great living doing something real and necessary.
It’s a private college. No taxpayer money involved. They can do whatever they want.
But the parents paying for their children’s tuition can still pull out their students–unless they are died hard liberals.
“The school has added the $30 fee to its current $28,000 annual tuition to setup the Freedom Education Fund, an illegal immigration scholarship for “undocumented” students.” Even if half of the students are pulled out, that would make the school think twice to assist ILLEGAL (not undocumented) students. Close the damn school.
Fine, let them go bankrupt.
We should not be paying for anything for illegals, other than a ticket out of the country. There are established procedures on how a person can enter this country legally. Those procedures should be followed.
It’s a PRIVATE college. No taxpayer money involved.
This is the marketplace at work. If the idea’s popular, then enrolment will increase. If not, enrolment will decrease or the college will fail. Exactly what Romney called for in the automotive business sector.
Justin-
i don’t think that anyone should pay for their ticket out except the illegals themselves, whether secured from their bank accounts, taken directly from their wallets or purses, or as a result of auctioning off their crap.
why would u pay 4 a ticket out of the country? catch/detain the “coyotes” confiscate their money & make them pay!
We have it wrong…our children and our citizens should come first, especially when it comes to education, but also health and safety. This is the United States of America. Why do we change the U.S. Constitution, our laws, our morals, our ethics and our ways to satisfy other people who come into this country? That is why our country is the way it is today…people want to be politically correct…dang, just be American about it!
It’s a PRIVATE college. No taxpayer money involved.
So, do you want to be telling a private business how to go about its business?
No, we hope it goes bankrupt!
NO, but this encourages illegals 2 stay & more 2 keep coming. correct me if i misunderstood the free education offer but i don’t believe i read anything about the private college paying 4 their living expenses/medical/housing etc.. i WONDER who is going 2 pay those expenses? perhaps the open border politicians? maybe the European union they seem 2 be doing great by leaving the door open.
Isn’t nice to see that we treat illegals better than American citizens. Makes me want to throw up.
It’s a PRIVATE college. No taxpayer money involved. They can do whatever they want. If it’s unpopular, enrolment will drop.
Vote trump 2016
STRONGLY advise you move to another college!!!! HOW DARE THEY PRESUME THAT AMERICAN CITIZENS WANT TO PAY FOR muslim CRIMINALS WHO ARE HERE ILLEGALLY, DESPITE WHAT THE muslim PIECE OF PIG SHIT SAYS!!!! COLLEGE IS EXPENSIVE ENOUGH WITHOUT HAVING TO BE FORCED TO PAY FOR ILLEGAL CRIMINALS!!! CONSTITUTIONALLY… I BET THIS IS ILLEGAL!!!! GET YOUR MONEY BACK… PARENTS AND KIDS!!!
I come for visit, get treated regal, So I stay, who care I illegal?
I cross the open border, poor and broke, Take the bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there. Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say “You come no more, We pay your rent and send cash right to your door.”
Welfare checks, they make you wealthy, Obamacare it keep you
healthy! With EBT card I got plenty money, Thanks to you, Liberal American dummy.
With Obamaphone I call friends in motherland, Tell them come with guns as fast as they can, They come in rags and Chebby trucks, I buy big house with EBT bucks.
They come here and we live together. More EBT and welfare checks, it gets better!
Fourteen families they moving in, But neighbor’s patience wearing thin.
Finally, white guy moves away, Now I buy his house, and then I say, “Find
more illegals for house to rent” And in the yard I put a tent.
Send for family quick like bunny, Then they too draw the welfare money! Everything is mucho good, And soon we own the neighborhood We have hobby—-it’s called
breeding, Obamacare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife needs pills? EBT, it pay all the bills! American
crazy! He pay all year, To keep Obamacare, EBT and Welfare
running here. We think America darn good place!
Too darn good for the white man race.
If they no like us, they can go. Got lots of room in Mexico!
What a pathetic disgusting country this has become. Thank you obama you no good worthless sob.
Private ed-facilities are so expensive now it is difficult to afford tuition. I don’t think student’s will continue to pay for illegals. If they voted for that back sliding slime ball Obama then they have no one to blame but themselves ! If you want to donate, choose a poor AMERICAN student.
I find it so difficult to believe college students are paying for illegal immigrants to go to our colleges while theie parents struggled to work and save to put you stupid fools thru college. What the hell is wrong with you all you are doing is aiding these immigrants that do not belong in our country you are going against the grain this country was founded on. People came here years ago from foreign countries and had to have a sponsorship, there own apartments and a job and the Immigration Dept. made sure they were investigated thoroughly and there was a waiting period for each and every country of immigrants to have the right to come to America if you had a cold you couldn’t get in and had to re-await and made sure you were sound and healthy before coming here. Today this immigration board has become so uncaring they are letting in criminals in it doesn’t matter where they come from as long as the government turns a blind eye.
Prescott College should be forced to shut down & put the admin in jail for the next 5 – 10 years for the illegally forcing students & tax payers for fund an illegal aliens education. They do not belong here, period.
What’s up with this they pay no taxes nothing for medical and now this they are given everything.How many colleges have this would be the real question for someone to find out.
Well if Cruz, Sanders or Clinton gets into office, we’ll ALL be paying for these illegals… The only one who can get this country straight again is DONALD TRUMP. Sanders is nothing but a socialist and he’ll only bring this country to its knees. Cruz is nothing but a political puppet… If you watch his speech’s, every time he finishes a statement and people clap, he’s laughing at them… Cruz makes me sick….. . I know at times when Donald Trump is pressured by the media, he sometimes says the wrong things but when he’s president he’ll have time to think things out and surround himself with very smart that will give him sound and strong advice..
Lets face it….Our country is in the shape its in because of all these dam politicians….. You’ve GOT TO RUN this country as a business and STOP kissing everyone’s back end..ITS TIME TO MAKE AMERICA POWERFUL / GREAT AGAIN…..
You got that right
“The private college is has announced they will TACT on to its current tuition a fee,”… Hey, HORN, the word is “TACK” –
goodness me, and here’s me thinking only the folk posting here used the wrong words! Lol!
Where are the parents? Why pay to any of these schools. I thought our children had first priority; not any more. Find Another occupation that you might know where your money is going. And, why would I want to pay for someone else’s education when I struggle for mine? Go to a school of higher education (?) and just listen to what goes on and is said in the office where tuition checks are handled out, or, take a couple classes to see what propaganda is being taught and what is being eliminated. Looks like not enough of us even care to do so; see the liberal consequences on our campuses. And, my daughter, who is paying her education debt as best she can, is harassed by our government for not doing it fast enough—go after the dead beats and those siphoning money from us to get a free ride because our liberal government sees it as only fair thing to do. And our government promotes a college education at reasonable interest rates; until you have to pay it back. Our government only takes care of itself; not us. Read history, but ah forget it, our Congress could not even read a train wreck health care (tax) bill before ramrodding it into our pocket books. Use to be we wondered why they don’t speak our language, now they just ignore us; like what are YOU doing here. Changing times are being forced upon us.
All of the comments make sense,parents should send their kids to colleges that do not fund illegals,and if they have more money than they really need let them pay the price for Private college with the extra fee,,as far as illegals we have been funding them for a long time,through welfare and taxes .I look at it this way some of us living on fixed incomes will soon run out of money and won’t be taking care of them anymore,then the Gov’t will have to take care of us.The one thing for sure is this Gov’t doesn’t have anyone with brains to figure that out .When they start wanting to give themselves raises I say to myself what for ,you already quit working for the people who pay your wages and being that we are good bosses they should all get fired,they have way too much power.
The stupidity of the youth of today proves liberalism is a mental disorder.
WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO ! THIS IS AMERICA ! NOT A PLACE FOR THOSE PEOPLE ! WERE TRYING TO LIVE DAY TO DAY ! THESE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE IT ! ALL THEY DO IS GET OVER HERE TO GET ALL THE INFORMATION THEY CAN TO DESTROY US !
To me this is great news. The more these idiotic liberals do to piss people off the less likely they are to vote for this crap again. It’s totally beyond me how there is anybody left that votes democrat.
I hate to say this but they, meaning the GOP and Democrats are going to do anything and everything to stop Trump from getting into office, this will include threats, intimidation and physical violence to Trump followers and voters, along with that do not expect any protection from security or police when it happens they are being told to stand down. The current administration is playing this up and Hilary is sending in her hired crones to infiltrate Trumps rallies and speeches to cause disruption and violence that will make Trump look bad, take into the account the news stations and media have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from big bankers and wall street to trounce on Trump, along with the illegal immigrants that have been allowed to enter the country under Obamas order to the boarder patrol to stand down and make no arrest, they will be allowed to vote, absente ballots will be another blow to Trump, believe it or not deceased individuals will be voting this year for Democrats. I hope something changes and Trump takes the Presidency, but unless the American people who are willing to yell, scream and make noise for Trump to let the lifer politicians know we are fed up with their corrupt way of government and they will be voted out for not listening to what the American people want………..Trump will not win.