In an outpouring of sanity rivaling anything seen in our most liberal state in many years, the Massachusetts House defeated a bill which would have guaranteed illegal immigrants not only access to state schools and colleges but would have provided these scofflaws with tuition rates rivaling those reserved for the children of the resident taxpayers.
Because the illegals work off the books and have no traceable incomes, except for welfare and supplemental Social Security benefits, they would undoubtedly qualified for the coveted tuition-free status as well as student loans, further limiting the availability of higher education to the working citizens of Massachusetts. and because of the illegal status of those receiving the benefits, the future chances of the Commonwealth ever receiving a future payback in the form of income taxes is, to say the least, just about nil, what with the phony names, repeated moves and the lack of enforcement that accompanies their transient way of life.
The way this law was written was unique as well, and says a lot about those who crafted the bill. as worded, it would have included and provided benefits for any illegals from anywhere in the world.
additionally, in a further slap at those faced with passing the grueling state tests required to complete high school in Massachusetts, the draft required the immigrants to have completed only high school or an equivalent. Now that's one for a good belly laugh. What kind of educational process could you show up with and claim as an equivalent? I betcha almost anything, including chats with the local headman in a nearby yurt or something synonymous.
and what about the expected need to interpreters for all the new languages to be expected as mounting tide of migrants engulfs the institutions of higher learning? It appears that that little morsel, and its additional costs, was to be left for a later statehouse song and dance.
Not content to simply stand aside and remain neutral, Massachusetts' Democratic attorney General, Tom Riley, sent a personal letter to the members of the House, who were about to vote on this pernicious bill, imploring them to extend these benefits to the very gangrels and ne'er-do-wells that he is sworn to round up. But in the Commonwealth, as any good resident knows, a good attorney General can be recognized by the classes and people he chooses not to chase down or round up.
The Speaker of the Massachusetts House, Salvatore DiMasi, who supported the bill wholeheartedly, heard the tom-toms and the growing level of indignation afoot and had the political courage to quietly tell House members that he didn't want them to back a bill that might hurt them politically. You know, get them thrown out of office on their ears by their enraged constituents in the next election. ah, Sal, so prescient when the phones have been ringing off the hook for two days and the radios waves have been blue with rage over this preposterous Democratic plan to redistribute hard earned income from the pockets of working families directly to undocumented workers, as the Boston Globe, that spicy NY Times affiliate, so aptly terms them.
Not to be outdone in the rhetoric department, supporters returned to the dog-eared left-wing manual and cited the politics of fear for the measure's defeat. But what the strident drummers and mealy-mouthed iconoclasts at the Immigrant and Refugee advocacy Coalition fail to grasp in the slightest is that it is fear, pure and simple, that finally doomed the bill. Fear that the kids couldn't get into college. Fear that the families couldn't get a loan from the money pool. Fear that the limited number of affordable seats would be filled by freeloaders from south of the border. Fear that a life of scrimping and saving and paying ridiculously high taxes in the most liberal state in the US wouldn't be enough. Fear that all of the work and the tears and the toil would be swept under the carpet in an evening of political bluster.
The idea that such a proposal could come to the floor is frightening enough, especially today when so many mothers and fathers are both working, sometimes at two jobs, to support families and to insure that the kids receive a modicum of higher education, But the possibility that the bill could pass is mind boggling and would mean the triumph of the illegal immigrant over the tax paying citizen in every sense and that of Massachusetts finally earning the lofty sobriquet of 'aliens paradise' to parallel that of 'taxachusetts'.
In america today, there is no greater liberal darling than the illegal immigrants, who are flooding our shores, climbing our fences, such as they are, destroying our health care systems, not just in our southern border states but close to home, and overloading our support systems. Cape Cod Hospital, in Massachusetts, has just announced that emergency services will be provided on a cash only basis, due to the deleterious impact of illegal immigrants, while studies show that at least one-third of all the aliens in the country are on some sort of welfare relief. and the liberals keep piling on the free perquisites.
During the reign of Governor Michael Dukakis, the lamented Democratic Presidential contender in 1988, two activities occurred which gave pause at the time and which now indicate the solid liberal foundations for today's tuition fracas.
a law was passed, though later rescinded, which demanded that a homeowner retreat from the depredations of a criminal entering his home. The second concerned the Governor's approval of the human services staffs' assignment of bogus social security numbers to illegal aliens to enable them to collect benefits. The combination of these two artfully crafted progressive means of coddling two disparate kinds of criminal elements resulted in a national backlash and in an immensely successful cottage industry of bumper stickers, the most popular of which stated, "The Duke makes me puke." Some of the latter are still visible today - a fitting legacy.
Sadly, as kids prepare for college in Massachusetts, if saner heads had not prevailed, you might've seen your future children's college roommates in the TV newscasts climbing the fences at the border, sporting MP13 tattoos or crawling through the latest tunnel uncovered outside of San Diego. The difference would have been that they'd be attending free of charge while you'd be mortgaging your home to the hilt to pay for school, that is if you're kids would've been accepted for one of the limited number of seats available.
In the end, the bill shines more light on the Democrats and their increasingly Marxist credo — deny benefits to those who pay for them and extend them to those who don't.
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