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Originally Posted by Laterlater
Ah. So she is the poor lout they used to eventually ban all undocumented students from State Universities, on the ground that it "depleted states resources" - regardless if they only made up .03% of all students :
"In 2008, the legislature had passed a law forcing undocumented students to pay out-of-state tuition at public colleges. Colotl, who began college before the law was passed, wasn’t paying the out-of-state rate at the time of her arrest, and state Republicans tried to make an example out of her. They called on the Georgia Board of Regents, which oversees the public-university system, to root out undocumented students, who made up less than one per cent of the over-all student population. They also threatened to pass bills banning undocumented students from attending public universities."
Georgia is a toilet - especially if your a undocumented Uni-age person.
I would know, I lived through it.
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Yeah, her case set all of that into motion. I left Georgia and so did several other activists I know to attend private colleges up north because even low level state colleges wanted us to pay upwards of $10k as international students.
I cannot imagine how many other people have left the state because of it. Emory is now helping first time college students pay the full cost of their tuition, so that's a plus! But, for many of us that got caught up in the mess created by the Board of Regents after her case, it didn't help us so we had to find other options and transfer out-of-state.
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