Support the Maryland Dream Act

From the editorial page of the Baltimore Sun:

A bill to allow community colleges to offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants is a good first step toward recouping Maryland’s investment in the human capital they represent, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough

By the time its young people graduate from high school, Maryland has invested a lot in them — it costs the state nearly $200,000 to educate a child from grades K-12. You’d think, after that, we’d want as many of them as possible to attend college so they could join the well-educated workforce Maryland will need to be competitive in the 21st century. But some lawmakers apparently have a problem with that. They’d rather score political points by bashing immigrants than build up the human capital on which the state’s future depends. Read more…

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