Post details: House Speaker Pelosi touts plan to ease student debt
House Speaker Pelosi touts plan to ease student debt
House Speaker Pelosi touts plan to ease student debt
Ryan Gabrielson, Tribune
Illegal immigrant students brought to this country as children deserve a path to citizenship and affordable higher education, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a visit to Arizona State University on Monday.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, joined three of Arizona’s Democrat congressmen — Reps. Ed Pastor, Harry Mitchell and Raul Grijalva — to rally support for efforts to increase federal financial aid.
The topic, however, turned toward the border. Pelosi pledged to move legislation that would improve citizenship and education opportunities for illegal immigrant students.
“This March, you will have an immigration reform act that will include the Dream Act,” Pastor said.
The legislation would allow illegal immigrants who graduate from high school in the U.S., have lived here for five years and arrived prior to turning 15, to attend college for in-state tuition.
Once enrolled, those students would be given six years of legal residence during which they must complete two years worth of college credit or military service to earn citizenship....
Comment: The enemy within.
