Wednesday, June 09, 2010

It's On: Law Enforcement Versus Academia

To hell with Arizona, we have our own little immigration battle shaping up in Georgia.

On the one side, academia. A group which knows nothing of the real world and exist in their own little bubble in the Halls of Education, allied with the open borders liberals.

On the other, law enforcement and pretty much the 75% of the country who managed to move on away from the security blanket of school and engage in life.

Most people probably have at least a passing knowledge of the case in Georgia involving a Kennesaw State University student who was discovered to be in this country illegally after being stopped for a traffic violation and giving law enforcement false information.

Well a lawsuit has now been filed asking for an investigation into the University System of Georgia to determine just how pervasive the problem of colleges ignoring state and federal immigration laws is.
Sheriff Neil Warren is calling for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to probe the University System of Georgia's governing body, the Board of Regents, for possibly violating the law by admitting illegal immigrants into the state's universities.

Anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King filed a complaint on May 19 with the GBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, then asked Warren to assist in the matter.

In a letter dated June 4, Warren referred to King's complaint, stating that the Board of Regents is in violation of state and federal laws, which prohibit state universities from admitting illegal immigrants.

"O.C.G.A. 50-3601(c)(7) requires compliance with 8 U.S.C. 1621 which provides that aliens not legally in the United States are ineligible for certain State or local benefits, including postsecondary education," Warren writes in his letter to GBI Director Vernon Keenan.

Academics love to engage in debate. They aren't too big into action, which is really at the crux of the situation in Arizona. All those eggheads are actually afraid that some action may take place instead of merely passing feel good legislation and engaging in endless studies and debate. Well I hope they get to debate their case for ignoring the law in front of a judge. Depending on who the judge is of course, and the ACLU and their associated minions are very good at shopping around for a sympathetic judge, it will be fun to watch these guardians of the Ivy Halls of Edumakation explain a dozen different ways why laws only apply to the little people and they are not the little people.

On the other hand they will probably just use the lawsuit as another excuse to raise tuition.

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