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Undocumented children are part of our nation and need your support

March 2, 2017

OPINION by ANDREA DEVITT

In 2011, Jerry Brown signed the Dream Act, which made California the first state in our nation to allow undocumented students to apply for and receive state-administered college financial aid. This was groundbreaking legislation.

Sadly, the applications to the California Dream Act are down more than 60 percent this year compared with last year. As of Friday, there are only 17,819 applications compared with 46,731 last year, according to Patti Colston, communications manager for the California Student Aid Commission.

State leaders believe that many immigrant students may not be applying due to President Donald Trump’s fear-mongering statements about possible deportations.

This also comes at a time when California needs more college graduates. A recent study released by the PPIC indicates if current trends continue, California will fall short of 1.1 million college graduates by 2030.

During these unsettling times it is important to remember Hillary Clinton’s speech at the 1996 Democratic Convention:

“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child.” Mrs. Clinton said. “That change is certain but progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow.”

Our nation has changed significantly over the last 21 years. Like Mrs. Clinton, I believe in the common good and I believe we are all responsible for ensuring that all children are raised in a nation that doesn’t just talk about family values, but acts in ways that value families.

Undocumented immigrant children, like all children, are part of our nation. Please encourage all high school seniors and all college students to apply for financial aid by March 2, 2017; California needs more college graduates. For more information, contact the state aid commission at 916-464-8271, or the California Department of Education at 916-323-6398.


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dreamers and nightmares and continuing to flood the country with refugees is not about compassion. It is about creating and maintaining a permanent underclass that will always vote themselves largesse.


It’s about political power, of one party in particular and the fear that the other party has of complete opposition from minority blocks. its not about compassion, neither party gives a damn about these people. its about votes. Period.


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In all sincerity, why would anyone want to remember any speech given by that loser Hillary Clinton. It doesn’t take a village to raise a child in American society. It takes a family — hopefully with both parents intact.


This article gives the impression that colleges and universities have have excess capacity and that they are searching for students. That’s out and out malarkey. It’s infuriating to know that illegal aliens fill seats in our state’s public universities while citizens go wanting. That’s simply un-American.


Oh, and undocumented immigrant children are not part of our nation. By their very definition they are visitors. Illegal ones at that.


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Of those shown in the photo, I wonder about two things:


1.) How many will actually complete a bachelors degree?


2.) How many of them will major in studies (e.g. Engineering, Business, Classical Studies, the Hard Sciences, etc.) which will allow them productive and gainful lives in the US, versus those who will major in contrived, worthless and highly divisive “areas” like Women’s Studies, Sociology, Chicano Studies, Gender Studies and the like?


Does the author of this article happen to know?


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I find this interesting how your opinion basically endorses chronic lifetime crime.

But before you start writing out your next statement/manifesto of treason, let me remind you that there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s doing immigration differently than those that have gone before.

And it’s all very, very legal.


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Unfortunately all education has become: BODIES = MONEY.


The skill of actual education is already lost, with only a few hold-outs sprinkled around. The cancer of progressive education is finally consuming itself, beginning with common core, as more new teachers are nothing more than products of the cancerous system, it will only exacerbate and hasten the downfall.


Perhaps there are fewer applicants because they aren’t being bribed, and the money just goes to over-bloated educators’ in a desperate attempt to keep their unfunded liabilities afloat? Hate to break it to you, but most “illegals” are not at all interested in education, just free stuff. If they were, they would not be fleeing a s-hole turd-world country in the first place, would they? Oh, but that kind of honesty must be racist. Choke on your self-righteousness.


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“Unfortunately all education has become: BODIES = MONEY”

Quote of the day!


That’s public education in the now, too sad.


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How come it didn’t surprise me to find out the writer is a GUBERMENT employee, community activist, benefitting from tax dollars for illegals.


Andrea Devitt

Educator/Community Organizer/Melaleuca Director II

Cuesta College California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, California Area 500+ 500+ connections


https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-devitt-1224a95/


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I heard on the radio the other day, 34,000 illegals here in Cali applied for Pell Grants last year, 24,000 this year. How can it even be possible to get AMERICAN TAX dollars for illegals?

Cal Poly announced a few months ago they had about 175 illegals going to school there, who is paying for that??


Recently Moonbeam announced he was cutting funding to middle-income families but not to illegals for grants, no wonder Cali is bankrupt.


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Here’s an experiment for you; Take all your money in cash, and start handing it out to everyone that comes by. Now, how many believe that as time passes fewer people will show up? How many believe that you will be mobbed by a surge of people? This is why we need to close down all the reasons Illegal Immigrants come here. No welfare, no medical (except emergency), no jobs, no education. All we have to do is what every other damn country on the face of the earth does! That does not make us bad people.


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Except the dream act was NOT intended to benefit illegals, only unionized “educators” (used in the loosest sense of the word). It was a not-even-veiled attempt to, yet again, bribe and kick-back to the unions. A giant money-laundering scheme. Shameful and pitiful.


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If the United States continues to be Central and south Americas human relief valve; those nations south of the border will never clean up their corruption nor improve their standard of living. That means we are hurting children that are not lucky enough to get here. That is a very twisted definition of compassion if you ask me.


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