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Surprisingly, money is not the big issue. In Texas, which in 2001 became the first state to grant such tuition benefits, fewer than 8,000 undocumented immigrants--out of a public college population of more than 1 million--got reduced rates last year. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors tighter immigration rules, says it is more a matter of principle: "Extending in-state tuition is a way of legitimizing their presence. It is back-door amnesty...
Education is a tricky battleground. "There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred times bigger than Terri Schiavo," in the words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like...
Longtime assistant coach Eva Bergsten has taken over coaching duties for Hartford this season following the departure of Mark Krikorian to lead the WUSA’s Philadelpia Charge last spring...
...Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies The attack was a result of many security failures: Airport security failed, the CIA failed and the INS failed. Terrorists made it through layers of our security systems, and no one raised a red flag. They came through airports, past immigration authorities, they overstayed their visas, and none of these facts came to anyone's attention...
...wouldn't be unrealistic that Krikorian, out of respect for the thrashing he was dealt that day, might pick up a Harvard player or two within a few years...