While the move today to bar illegal immigrants from North Carolina community colleges won praise from groups like Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, it drew a rebuke from the left for Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue.
Perdue, the Democratic nominee for governor, made the motion to ban illegal immigrants from community colleges while a study is being done on the issue.
The motion, approved by the State Board of Community Colleges, was a reversal from Thursday, when officials indicated they were inclined to admit illegal immigrants pending the outcome of the study.
That drew the following response to Perdue from James Protzman at BlueNC:
I'm sure you and your staff agonized about whether to sell out poor brown people for political advantage, but agony or not, you came down on the wrong side of an important moral issue. Which makes your campaign irrelevant to me. Don't bother calling. Don't bother writing. Don't bother me at all. You don't need progressives, and progressives don't need you. I'm heading for Mike Munger.




Try again
Nice little dance there, but my point was: if "breaking the law" is what sets undocumented aliens apart from the rest of us, and keeps them from attending community college, then why are we pushing hard for others who "broke the law" to have these benefits?
Many of the answers fit both sets of people: we want them to be more productive in society and less likely to commit crimes, they set a good example for others with similar circumstances, etc.
You can throw the word ILLEGAL out there all you want to, but since when did trespassing become more "evil" than burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, sexual assault, etc.?