{"id":24644,"date":"2021-06-16T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24644"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:16:05","slug":"virginia-law-financial-aid-illegal-students-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/06\/16\/virginia-law-financial-aid-illegal-students-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia\u2019s Governor Northam Signs Law Extending Financial Aid to Illegal Alien Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On June 14, the Commonwealth of Virginia\u2019s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, signed a recent law<\/a> expanding state financial aid to illegal aliens. During the ceremony, which took place at Marymount University in Arlington, the governor justified his party\u2019s policy by asserting that illegal aliens \u201care Virginians, in every sense of the word, except for the immigration status.\u201d While many Virginians \u2013 both native-born ones and legal immigrants \u2013 undoubtedly disagree with this giveaway to individuals who have no right to be in the country, they will nevertheless be required to pay for the Democrats\u2019 virtue signaling and false \u201cgenerosity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill, H.B. 2123, was originally introduced in the Democratic-dominated Virginia House of Delegates by Del. Alfonso H. Lopez<\/a>, who serves as the Democratic Whip. It passed the state House and Senate in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Virginia\u2019s Legislative Information System, the legislation<\/a> \u201c[p]rovides that students who meet the criteria to be deemed eligible for in-state tuition regardless of their citizenship or immigration status shall be afforded the same educational benefits, including financial assistance programs administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia the State Board for Community Colleges, or a public institution of higher education, as any other individual who is eligible for in-state tuition.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will go into effect on August 1, 2022, and builds upon a law Northam signed in April 2020 making illegal aliens eligible<\/a> for Virginia in-state tuition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the ceremony, the governor stated that the legislation would benefit the families of the illegal alien college students, and claimed that it was both good for Virginia\u2019s economy<\/a> (\u201cmore workers with degrees, who can fill job vacancies in our state,\u201d i.e. more job competition) and an affirmation of the \u201cAmeri<\/a>c<\/a>an dream<\/a>.\u201d Much of the media also framed the issue in one-sidedly sympathetic terms, with WDMV<\/a> describing the legislation as \u201can effort to diminish the barriers of students who are not citizens of the U.S. or immigrants\u201d and writing with approval that \u201cnew incoming students enrolled in an online education or distance learning program will receive a tuition assistance grant award for $2,000.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predictably, neither the Democratic politicians, nor the pro-illegal-alien journalists, mentioned the costs, or the fact that Virginia taxpayers will be on the hook for them. (Granted, some illegal aliens pay taxes as well, but these revenues in no way compensate for the large and growing fiscal burden of illegal immigration<\/a>.) In other words, legal immigrants who followed the rules \u2013 and are working hard to achieve the \u201cAmerican dream\u201d and put their own children through college \u2013 will be asked to fund financial aid for individuals who have no legal right to be in the U.S. in the first place. And Governor Northam and his party are putting the latter before \u201cleft behind\u201d native-born Virginians languishing in poverty in economically depressed areas, such as Appalachia, and others (see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to pandering,\nvirtue-signaling, and redistributing other people\u2019s money, the legislation\nsigned by the governor is also an element of the open-borders crowd\u2019s\nnever-ceasing attempts to \u201cnormalize\u201d illegal migration by increasingly\nanchoring unauthorized aliens in American society in every way possible. That\nthis is both at odds with the wishes of the American people and the spirit of\nour immigration laws is apparently of no concern to them. Nor do Governor\nNortham and his party seem at all worried about the fact that offering more\n\u201cgoodies\u201d \u2013 and otherwise making it easier for foreign nationals to live in the\ncountry illegally \u2013 incentivizes more illegal migration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 14, the Commonwealth of Virginia\u2019s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, signed a recent law expanding state financial aid to illegal aliens. During the ceremony, which took place at Marymount University in Arlington, the governor justified his party\u2019s policy by asserting that illegal aliens \u201care Virginians, in every sense of the word, except for the<\/p>\n

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