The concept is like something from a Calvin and Hobbes strip. In “The Land Where Words No Longer Mean Things” I can picture Calvin interacting with his beleaguered teacher and strings of consonants in her speech bubble in the written equivalent of Charlie Brown’s teacher’s voice. However, this is no comic strip – it’s Connecticut.
“As far as I’m concerned, they aren’t illegal,” Gomes said. “They’re citizens of the country, which we would call undocumented. Do you have to be a person of means to get an education? Or do we have to rub the law in peoples’ faces that don’t have the means to pay for the tuition that others have so easily.”
He can dislike the law all he likes. He can work to change the law. But no matter how many times he says it, he can’t convert an illegal alien into a citizen by the mere power of his wishes. He apparently is oblivious to the fact that the wrong he is trying to right – that illegal aliens are often taken advantage of by businesses who pay them less than the legal wage – will only be exacerbated by a government subsidy.
h/t Headlines at Hot Air
It’s all window dressing anyway. At UCLA, I saw very few Latinos. It’s mostly Asians and Caucasians, despite the fact that at least 40% of the state is Latino. They just don’t do well enough in school to think about going to a reputable college anyway.