If you don’t think illegal immigration is a hot issue in the N.C. governor’s race, think again. It’s so hot that the N&R ran ran this AP story twice in today’s print edition — on B2 and on B4A.
A couple of interesting quotes here, one from Bev Perdue:
“Somebody is going to have the political courage to say we’re either going to let them stay here or we’re going to figure out a way to hire buses” to send them home, Perdue said. “I see that as a great opportunity for leadership nationally for us to join arms and to actually demand that the president and the Congress act.”
I’m not sure what Perdue means by that, because I don’t believe anyone on either side of the aisle believes that rounding illegals up and putting them on buses heading for the border is the proper solution. But in fairness, here are the candidates’ more detailed responses to the illegal immigration question. Note that all major candidates, Perdue included, oppose allowing illegal immigrants to enter the community college and university systems.
Republican candidate Bob Orr notes that even if illegal immigrants “were allowed to attend North Carolina universities, their legal status makes them ineligible to work and use their degree after graduation,” a point that UNCG’s Nolo Martinez concedes when he says that when illegal immigrants “finish their degree, we are not adjusting their (legal) status.”
With that in mind, you have to wonder why our community college and university system are bending over backwards to admit illegal immigrants.
