Illegal immigrants should not receive benefits of any kind as they are not our responsibility. If you're in this country, do it legally.
Oh no! They have to pay in-state tuition instead of out-of-state tuition. The sky is falling!
Legal Residency and Fees
Students are classified as residents or nonresidents after completing the Statement of Legal Residence shortly after being admitted to the university. Many graduate students (U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and some eligible non-immigrants) who enter UC Berkeley as nonresidents and establish residency for the required year may be classified as residents for tuition purposes within one year after their arrival. These students then receive the benefit of paying fees at the lower resident rate.
The classification process is not automatic. Continuing nonresident students who have made California their permanent home and believe that they are eligible for resident status must submit a residency classification petition, along with supporting documentation, to the Residence Affairs Office prior to established deadlines. Even though nonresident students will probably not submit a petition to change their residency status until the end of their first academic year at Berkeley, you must start the process of fulfilling the residency requirements as soon as you arrive. This includes documenting when you arrived, that your year of physical presence in this state is coupled with your intent to make California your home, and that you are financially independent.
What should you do once you arrive in California?
Document your presence in the state as soon as you arrive. Save your airline ticket or bank/credit card statements showing that you were physically present in California one year prior to the beginning of the term for which you are seeking resident classification.
Establish a California residence in which you keep your permanent belongings.
Obtain a California Drivers License within 10 days of arriving in California. If you have never had a drivers license in any state, obtain a California State Identification Card.
Surrender all out-of-state drivers license and identification cards.
Register your vehicle(s) in California within 20 days of arriving in the state.
Register to vote in California, and vote in California elections.
- Pay California income taxes as a resident on all taxable income earned after your arrival in California, and file California resident or part-year resident tax returns.
- File nonresident or part-year resident out-of-state tax returns if you have out-of-state taxable income prior to arriving in California.
- Designate and use a California address as your permanent address on all records (e.g., school, employment, tax forms, military, etc.).
- Open a California bank account and close all out-of-state accounts. If your financial account is with an interstate or internet bank, change your permanent address to California.
- Remaining in California during non-academic periods is a strong indicator of your intent to make California your home. You will be required to document that you were physically present in California for at least 2 of the 3 months during the summer previous to the term for which you are petitioning for residency.
Financial independence is another factor in determining eligibility for residency for tuition purposes. If you will be over the age of 24 during the year that you are petitioning for resident status, then you have fulfilled the financial independence criterion. Otherwise, you should do the following:
- Claim yourself as a tax exemption on your state and federal tax returns, and make sure no other individual claims you as a tax exemption on his/her tax returns; or
- Work as a GSI/GSR at least 49 percent time for the semester for which you are petitioning for residency.
If they can prove residency whats the problem?
If we aren't going to throw them out we might as well take their money and educate them!
Again, tuition for UCs and CSUs do not cover the cost of the education. They are heavily subsidised by taxes. Admitting people who should not be there costs California a shit-pile of money.
Wow, all the people who don't live in California and have never lived in California sure have a lot of interesting things to say!
And by interesting, I mean stupid.
According to this, for 2008-2009, the state provided $3.256 billion to the UCs. Total funding is "nearly $19 billion... from all sources at its 10 campuses".Again, tuition for UCs and CSUs do not cover the cost of the education. They are heavily subsidised by taxes. Admitting people who should not be there costs California a shit-pile of money.
Illegals getting benefits while citizens in good standing get shoved to the side.
Thank you "progressives".
A unanimous state Supreme Court, led by politically conservative Justice Ming Chin, said the California provision was constitutional because U.S. residents also had access to the reduced rates
The California SCOTUS lacks the authority to rule wrt the issue of federal law, entirely. The law allowing illegal residents in state tuition does not violate the California constitution, per their ruling. If the anti- immigrant plaintiffs want to pursue the matter further, they can do it in federal court, or take it up with the California legislature. That issue has not been decided.
None of the usual raving means a damned thing, other than being illustrative of the ignorance of the ravers.
It'll be hard to change it, the illegals will all vote no.
So much is wrong with this statement. Why dont we just let Mexico annex the US at this point. Jesus Christ.
As long as California is not rounding up illegals and deporting them, then they should have to allow them to go to school at the in-state rate. This is how it works. They could always round up all illegals and start to deport them all. You can not have it both ways.
That's the federal government's job, not California's. Immigration is federal domain. Every time southwestern states try to do something about it they are cockblocked at the federal level.
please explain what is wrong with a state enforcing federal law. as long as the state is in compliance with federal law, why should it be left to *only* the feds, who are clearly not doing their job sufficiently, to process ICE-related issues?
The California voters get what they deserve. Jobs and wealth will continue to flow out of the state while the "progressive" majority vote for idiot politicians who enact such laws.
"California is powerless to enact its own legislative scheme to regulate immigration. It is likewise powerless to enact its own legislative scheme to regulate alien access to public benefits."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187_(1994)
Please get a clue. Have you ever heard of Prop 187?
A FEDERAL court stopped California from enacting the statute:
The court said:
Again, Californians have long fought against illegal immigration. California might have been better off if it left the union but hey you can't just ignore federal courts...