Nov 28 2007
Senator Berger Statement on Community College Admissions for Illegal Aliens
“I am disappointed that by bureaucratic decisions our Community College System will reward illegal activity and allow individuals who have broken the law to attend North Carolina’s community colleges. Year after year community college administrators have assured Republican legislators that illegal aliens are not eligible for admission. We now learn that, all along, illegal aliens have been eligible and admitted. I can not decide whether I am more disturbed about the legal opinion or the past purposeful deception. The people of North Carolina have had enough of government officials saying one thing and doing another. They are especially tired of state officials claiming on the one hand that the illegal immigration problem is solely the result of failures at the Federal level while at the same time, by purposeful state action, North Carolina has encouraged illegal immigration with lax rules relating to driver’s licenses and easy access to our already over burdened system of higher education. The current Republican administration in Washington has received justifiable criticism for its failures; it is past time that Democrats, in control of North Carolina’s executive and legislative branches, are likewise held accountable.”
