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California court rules undocumented immigrants can get in-state tuition

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Can’t you just hear the Tom Tancredo-type knuckle draggers cringe?  They’ll just spout more of the unsupported and predictable gibberish about how undocumented immigrants are a burden on social services and how this encourages illegal immigraiton, blah blah blah.

It’s time to pass the DREAM Act, yet another item for the lame duck Congress to take on.

From CNN Blogs

The California Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that illegal immigrants may continue to receive in-state tuition at California colleges and Universities.

The decision overturns a lower court ruling.

In their ruling, the state court said California law specifically guarantees in-state tuition, a lower price, for students attending local schools for at least three years.

In their ruling, the court said that state law does not conflict with federal prohibitions for educational benefits for illegal immigrants ased on residency.

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