Discrimination against Americans citizens in favor of foreign nationals is unjustReader comment on: Fox-Google Republican Debate Submitted by Greg Ransom (United States), Sep 23, 2011 11:52 The discrimination in these in-state tuition cases is against American citizens. It is simply unjust and un-American to tax dollars taken from U.S. citizens to favor foreign nationals in the country illegally in preference over American citizens. This isn't a hard case. Note: Comments are moderated by the editor and are subject to editing. The Future of Capitalism replies: I don't necessarily disagree with you, I just think that Romney would sound less harsh, win more votes, better express America's historical ideals, and win a more-pro-growth mandate if he made sure to mention "wide gate" as well as "high fence" when he talks about this. The reality of the situation is if you have some son or daughter of a dishwasher or migrant farm workers or housecleaner who comes here at age 3 speaking no English and who does well enough in school to win admission to the University of Texas, and then to scrape together enough money for the in-state tuition, it's probably a pretty impressive child. We can send that human capital back to Mexico or try to have gates wide enough for them to enter legally. For Romney, who is some rich son of a governor, to tell that kid, "sorry, you have to pay $100,000 more tuition than the kid sitting next to you in Texas public school because of something your parents did 15 years ago when you were three" just sounds pretty cold otherwise. If we had a legal immigration system with enough available slots for people to come here legally, this would not be a problem — the illegals would just leave and then come back in legally. But we impose artificial quotas and constraints. It's a barrier on labor the same way that a tariff is on trade. Submit a comment on this article Other reader comments on this item
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