Anyone watching the split in North Carolina leadership over admitting illegal immigrants into public higher education (the attorney general says no; the governor says yes) will be interested in what the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had to say on the matter:
Richard Rocha, a spokesman for ICE, said Friday that illegal immigrants can apply to any school, but they run the risk of deportation if they are caught in the country.
“It is left for the school to decide whether or not to enroll out-of-status or undocumented non-immigrants,” Rocha said in a statement. “The Department of Homeland Security does not require any school to determine a student?s (immigration) status.”
Previously this option was realized only when the illegal immigrant was a student-athlete competing against UNC-Chapel Hill.
