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Should undocumented immigrants be offered in-state tuition rates at public colleges within their residing state?

Currently sixteen states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington) allow illegal immigrants to pay the same in-state tuition rates as other residents of the state. To qualify, students must have attended a school in the state for a certain number of years, have graduated high school in the state, have confirmed they are applying for legal citizenship.

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36%
Yes
64%
No
23%
Yes
58%
No
11%
Yes, as long as they pay taxes
3%
No, they should pay the same rate as out-of-state students
1%
Yes, and they should also be eligible for financial assistance and scholarships
2%
No, and all illegal immigrants should be deported
1%
Yes, but deny eligibility for financial assistance and scholarships

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 @9GK257P from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but only if they’re confirmed to be in the process of seeking citizenship in their chosen state

 @9RDFDB9 from New York  answered…2yrs2Y

It is better to get undocumented immigrants into the public college system so that they can earn degrees and contribute to the economy. They are not wealthy and for all practical purposes, resident of the state. So, given them an opportunity to pursue college education will ensure that they come into the mainstream, become valuable citizens, pay taxes, and overall contribute to our economy. It is to the advantage of the community to offer undocumented immigrants in-state tuition.

 @9GN5KWP from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but only if they’re confirmed to be in the process of gaining citizenship in their chosen state

 @9D6RZ6G from New York  answered…3yrs3Y

Current in-state tuition prices should be the tuition prices for all students, including immigrants.

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Yes, and they should also be eligible for free, higher education

 @Brandonnoe84  from Colorado  answered…1yr1Y

No, illegal immigrants should be deported but with a simple path to citizenship for illegal immigrants with no criminal record.

 @Mrzzoh from Arizona  answered…2yrs2Y

College and further education should be 100% free for everyone, regardless of citizenship or social status.

 @53JFHTCfrom Massachusetts  answered…6yrs6Y

It is hard to deny anyone an education; the real answer should be to minimize or eliminate tuition all together.

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Biden bans new offshore oil drilling along most of US coastline

President Joe Biden announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the US coastline on Monday in a move designed to bolster his environmental and climate legacy as he prepares to leave office.The order will protect 625mn acres of ocean on the US east coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, as well as portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, the White House said on Monday.“My decision reflects what the coastal communities, business and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said.The executive action will not prevent oil and gas companies obtaining leases in the central and western parts of the Gulf of Mexico, areas that produce almost 15 per cent of the nation’s oil supplies. Nevertheless, the move is expected to complicate the policy agenda of incoming president Donald Trump, who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and boost US oil production, even though it is already at a record level.The Trump transition team said it was a disgraceful decision designed to exact “political revenge on the American people” and the incoming president said he would immediately “unban” Biden’s prohibition on new offshore drilling.“I have the right to unban it immediately . . . we can’t let that happen to our country. It’s our greatest, it’s really our greatest economic asset,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview on Monday.Biden’s action will probably be challenged by the oil industry in court and face pushback from Republicans in Congress. But overturning the order could prove challenging and may require an act of Congress, according to legal experts.Biden is using his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, to protect the areas from drilling — the same mechanism which former president Barack Obama used previously to ban offshore drilling in some Arctic and Atlantic waters in 2016.In 2019, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by former president Donald Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was unlawful.

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