Have You No Shame, Virginia Republicans? Va. Republican Bill (the Anti-DREAM Act) Would Bar Illegal Immigrants From College

The Washington Post reports that Virginia Republicans announced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit public colleges and universities from accepting undocumented immigrants even if they attended a public high school and were brought to the United States at an early age by their parents. GOP leaders, who control both houses of the legislature, suggested that some Virginia residents are being denied access to college because too many illegal immigrants are taking available slots.

Souunds like the anti-DREAM Act to me.  We can only hope that it goes down in flames for its mean-spiritedness and for being bad economic and labor policy.  One reader writes “Education sounds like it may be in the process of becoming the `new’ property — these kinds of laws remind of the Alien land Laws, except instead of prohibiting alien ownership of land; they prohibit `ownership’ of the `new’ property — college degrees.”

KJ