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Hoping for higher educatio
Illegal immigrants denied admission to colleo
By Maria Panaritis &
Gaiutra Bahadur
KRT CAMPUS
PHILADELPHIA - Carlos de los
Santos loves being an auto mechanic.
Fussing with a carburetor, changing a
clutch, installing brakes-it all feels good,
he says with a smile.
In the same breath, however, emerges a
reminder that all is neither so simple nor
sweet for the 21-year-old Norristown, Pa.,
man.
He drops his head, stares at scrubbed-
white hands and fingernails traced in
grease, and longs for something out of
reach: college.
“Sometimes” he said, “what 1 do gets a
little frustrating.”
De los Santos is the son of illegal
immigrants.
In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, that
means that he and many others like him
aren’t able to go to college-even though
the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the
right to a high school cap and gown.
Illegal immigrant populations spiked in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other states
during the 1990s economic boom, making
this educational divide-and whether states
should tackle it-a volatile issue.
“College is almost universal now,” said
Richard Fry, a former immigration spe
cialist with the U.S. Labor Department
who is senior research associate at the
Pew Hispanic Center, a research organiza
tion based in Washington.
“In a major-league way, we’re denying
opportunity to these youth. Their econom
ic fortunes, their social fortunes, will be
severely diminished.”
To others, the answer is not further
accommodation.
Why, they ask, should colleges even
admit illegal immigrants, let alone pro
vide tuition discounts?
“The solution is to enforce immigra
tion laws-not to reward lawbreaking,” said
Steven A. Camarota, research director at
the Center for Immigration Studies in
Washington. “If we have laws and then
ignore them, that is far more corrosive
than anything else 1 can think of to liberal
democracy, to rule of the people, to a
functioning society.”
California, Texas, New York and Utah
have changed state laws to permit chil
dren of illegal immigrants to enroll in
public colleges and qualify for in-state
tuition rates.
In Pennsylvania, policymakers are not
discussing the issue.
And a New Jersey bill that would
make tuition discounts possible has been
overridden by budget woes and post-Sept.
11 anti-immigrant sentiments.
Elsewhere, political skirmishes have
broken out-most notably in Virginia,
where a clash between a community col
lege and the state’s attorney general led to
a law denying tuition breaks to illegal
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Carlos de los Santos. 21. sits on the family couch at his home in Norristown. Pa. Caries
illegal alien despite the fact that he has been living in the United States for 14 years.
As lawmakers haggle, thousands such
as de los Santos remain in limbo. Brought
here as children, they say, they are stuck
in marginal jobs with no future.
“What we're pretty much asking,” de
los Santos said in fluent English, “is just
to be equal to the rest of the people.”
Nationally, there are more than seven
million illegal immigrants, according to a
report issued earlier this year by the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Seven out of 10 are from Mexico.
It is difficult for foreign nationals to
obtain U.S. residency without a relative, a
willing employer or a sponsor.
That is why many remain illegal resi
dents.
For low-income students, community
colleges are often the only affordable
option. And just about any adult can
enroll.
. “It’s not our nature to deny, access to
anyone,” said Diane Bosak, executive
director of the Pennsylvania Commission
for Community Colleges.
But that was not de los Santos’ experi
ence.
He has lived in Norristown, home to a
burgeoning Mexican population, since his
early teens.
His parents smuggled him into the
United States from Mexico at age 7.
He worked his way through
Norristown Area High School.
A 20-year-old U.S. Supreme Court rul
ing on a Texas case guarantees that right
in the interest of social order.
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Montgomery County Community College
in Pennsylvania, he left the Social
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immigrant status, he lied and said lie.
a legal United States resident.
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said.
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tion is decentralized, the 14 communf
colleges run admissions and tuition
breaks as they see fit. Bosak said.
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College determines an applicant is uni
umented, the student must sign a
indicating illegal status and paythefe
eign student rate, admissions head Jos
Rodriguez said.
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