The entire school board, with the exception of Gill Trenum have been drinking too much Kool-Aid. Trenum is sticking to his campaign commitments .
It’s time to end revenue sharing in this county.

Let me guess. Either you don’t really believe what you said, or you acknowledge that I have resolved your concerns in less than half an hour without doing a thing.

This is altogether too easy….

The treatment of the family as an inseparable legal unit in the case of domicile and in-state tuition decisions is not unlike the Virginia insurance rules that do not allow husbands and wives to buy separate car insurance (e.g., allow them to insure themselves separately where one party has a significantly worse driving record from the other).

One might ask why these “family unit” rules now seem to engender cries of unfairness whenever they are brought to light. Is it a function of the increasing individuation of our society, the breakdown of the concept of a family as a cohesive and unitary construct, feminism (we women don’t want to be seen as “owned” by our husbands)?

They don’ t want to be Americans, doesn’t anyone get that??? They want to turn America into Mexico.

They are here for the money and the benefits, but that’s it. That’s why they invest in things they can take with them, like cars and not houses.

I have to disagree specifically with your wording here, Dolph: The 14th Amendment did not give birthright citizenship to these people…the Supreme Court INTERPRETED it to give birthright citizenship to these people. This does not, however, obligate the states to provide in-state tuition to ALL citizens…each state has the right to set their own critieria. The in-state tuition issue has absolutely nothing to do with the 14th Amendment.

I missed your point. NOVA is state funded and students without legal status do not get in-state tuition. Please elaborate on your point.

Here’s the way they get around it:

http://chronicle.com/news/article/2918/some-immigrants-get-in-state-tuition-in-virginia

Federal Student Aid

If the student is a US Citizen but one or more parents are undocumented, the student is eligible for federal student aid. However, if the parents supply a fake or stolen social security number (SSN) on the form, the student’s FAFSA will be rejected when the parent’s social security number fails to match. The FAFSA may also be rejected when the parents submit a SSN or Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) that is valid for work purposes only. If the parents do not have a social security number or the social security number fails the match, they should use 000-00-0000 as their social security number on the FAFSA form.

Maybe he can lobby Mexico for a free education because of all the money his folks sent back there.

I think the reason he feels victiomized is because his parents are poor enough (5 people in 2 bedrooms) that he would qualify for Pell Grants or government gioveaways that most of us can’t get … but can’t ebcause of the illegal status. Instead he would have to declare independence, move out of that 2/5 of a bedroom he occupies, get a job, and then borrow most of the money. Just like many, many American kids.

No sympathy from me. There are lots of sob stories about college funding. As usual we only hear about the ones relating to illegal aliens.

Mrs. USMC worked and paid state taxes. Does she not count as a parent? Furthermore, I am not so sure ‘paying taxes’ is the only criteria that should be used for in state tuition criteria.

Young Mr. Lopez is a United States citizen. He has lived most of his life in Virginia. That should end the discussion. Whether we like it or not, the 14th amendment gives birthright citizenship to those born in the United States. He was.

He is not being denied entry into a Virginia State college or university - he does not qualify for in state tuition rates. What if my nephew wanted to go to UVA, could he move to my house in the last year of high school, graduate from high school, and then qualify for being a VA state resident for in state tuition? I hope not - that is called working the system.

He can become emacipate himself from his family, and set up his own domicile - he will then be a legal resident of VA.

There is criteria to prove residency, as noted by someone previous - does he qualify - if the answer is no, then the answer is no.

It is funny, because Colgan supported a bill that said that a person had to meet the following criteria for in state tuition -
Parents had to have filed tax returns for the past three years, the student graduated from a Virginia high school, and the student was in a documented path to us citizenship - and you all cried that he was giving in state tuition to illegal aliens.

As far as the military - my utmost respect for them and their family - but if you do not change your residency to this state, well, then you should not be entitled to this state’s benefits. I know many military people choose florida as their home state - to avoid state taxes - they do not change their state of residency because they do not want to pay state taxes, so why should they get in state tuition?

I missed your point. NOVA is state funded and students without legal status do not get in-state tuition. Please elaborate on your point.

We all have our challenges to get ourselves through school. When I was in college I needed to pay for it myself, but I was denied financial aid because I was told that family assets prevented it. The following semester I just declared myself independent (not declared a a dependent on tax returns of course) and applied for things based on my income and assets…problem solved.

Later in life, I returned to school in another state and was denied in-state tuition even though I had lived and worked in that state for over a year. Those were the rules..I appealed, I lost, and I dealt with it. Their reasoning was that I did not have “family or enough connection” to the state. So, I just persisted and made sure I found a way to qualify the following semester.

Those were the rules…I knew them going in….I abided by them. It never occurred to me to try to have the rules changed after the fact by holding myself out as a member of some sort of “victim class” who needed special benefits.

This anchor baby scam has got to be stopped. We can’t afford it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A55650-2002Nov29&notFound=true

We should all send emails to that diplomat. Here is what I sent to the email address on the video.

Sir,

Your recent comments in San Diego about this being your country is clearly wrong. I doubt that your efforts to invade by sending your mexican citizens one by one over the walls or thru the tunnels will be successful. You have provoked the American People and we are now awake and insisting our elected officials enforce and close our borders. San Diego will never be part of Mexico, not in my lifetime for sure. Most likely not in yours. You are younger than me based on your picture in the video, but I have faith in our citizens to hold our politicians feet to the fire to secure the borders.

r,

A loyal member of Help Save the Old Dominion
That’s Virginia, also not becoming Mexico. Wait and see how many mexicans we deport in our county, our state and our country over the next year.

USMC wife, you and your kids got screwed. It was my understanding that military kids can now get the in state tuition.

I don’t think Mr. Lopez should be denied. I don’t think your kids should have been denied. These are 2 different situtations but both are dead wrong.