Heartbreak: Illegal Aliens Denied In-State College Tuition

Even more crushing, the fact they're illegal may prevent them from enrolling in college at all.

What the hell is going on here? Someone's enforcing the law?

Some states are making it harder for illegal immigrants to attend college by denying in-state tuition benefits or banning undocumented students.

In the past two years, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma have refused in-state tuition benefits to students who entered the USA illegally with their parents but grew up and went to school in the state. That represents a reversal from earlier this decade, when 10 states passed laws allowing in-state rates for such students.

This summer, South Carolina became the first state to bar undocumented students from all public colleges and universities.

North Carolina's community colleges in May ordered its 58 campuses to stop enrolling undocumented students after the state attorney general said admitting them may violate federal law.

"The new trend is to kick illegal aliens out of college altogether," says William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, which opposes taxpayer subsidies for undocumented immigrants.

Josh Bernstein of the National Immigration Law Center, an illegal-immigrants advocate, says sweeping anti-immigration bills are "a very serious threat" to the overall illegal population.

Maybe it'll be such a threat they'll pack up and leave.

I can't see how there's any debate here. The first word of the headline is illegal. That says it all. If they want to be legal, get in line with everyone else who's done it the right way.

Why reward law-breaking?