Immigrants... is the government making it too easy?
Posted: 3/18/2008 4:44:45 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Topic: News: Politics

Do you know that we have adult students who are not US citizens and who get the PELLgrant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants  to go to school?

One student from the Dominican Republic said she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished the program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money left over.

She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program *(check it out - I did)  for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she "loves HER country." I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!

I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I scrape by (as a single parent) to pay the bills, including my student loans.

Something is wrong here.  I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough.

Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close.  Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY...

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