7/14/2015 - Aaron Bandler Townhall.com
Illegal aliens are put up on a
pedestal in California, and the state's education system makes certain of that.
UCLA is now hiring them as interns, according to Campus Reform:
The UCLA Labor Center’s Dream
Resource Center is allowing undocumented students to apply for Dream Summer, a
ten-week summer program that provides paid internship opportunities for immigrants
in California, regardless of their immigration or insurance status. The program
will encourage them to advocate for immigration reform and promote universal
health care access regardless of immigration status.
The Center says the program began in
2011 after the U.S. Senate failed to pass the DREAM Act in 2010, which would
have given a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who came to the United
states before the age of 16. The program claims to have provided 418 internship
opportunities to immigrant youth throughout the nation.
UC Berkeley and UC San Diego have a
similar policy, according to the report.
California taxpayers already
pay for illegal aliens to attend school via the Dream Act, and now at schools like UCLA,
even more money pays for them to intern at the school to promote immigration
reform and government-funded healthcare to illegals? Seems like a massive
taxpayer scam.
While it's bad enough that they are
further bleeding taxpayers dry, it makes it worse that UCLA is turning these
illegals into activists for liberal policies: Seth Ronquillo, a spokesman for the
Dream Resource Center, told the Daily Bruin, “Many of the participants in the
program go on to become the leaders of the immigration reform movement. By
working in social justice organizations, they are given the resources they need
to continue in activism.”
Campus Reform links to a piece at
the Daily
Bruin that goes into detail about an illegal named Katherine Herrera is
advocating for government healthcare for illegals:
Through Dream Summer, Herrera is
interning at the California Nurses Association, a labor group where she is working
on advocating for universal healthcare for all Americans, with an emphasis on
undocumented individuals. “Everyone, even undocumented
individuals, should have basic access to healthcare,” she said.
Last month, Herrera flew to Oakland
to attend presentations on universal healthcare coverage and testified in front
of Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas’ staff members about how her
inability to receive healthcare as an undocumented individual took a toll on
her family. And then there's this illegal, who
through the Dream Resource Center is advocating for comprehensive immigration
reform (aka amnesty):
Magdalena Vasquez, an ally and
fourth-year Chicana/o studies student who is now interning at Faith in Action
Kern County, a church group that provides services for undocumented
individuals, said she joined the program because she is interested in working
in the nonprofit or advocacy sectors in the future.
She said she is working on promoting
Senate Bill 4, a bill in the California State Senate that proposes to expand
health care coverage to undocumented individuals.“A lot of people (in Kern County)
don’t know much about this law, so right now we’re working on getting more
people informed,” she said.So UCLA is turning these illegals
into foot soldiers for the progressive cause. That is not appropriate for
an educational institution to do.The ending quote of the Campus
Reform piece sums it up best:
“I feel that UCLA as a public
institution in California was established to educated the citizens of California
as well as the U.S. and legal international students, not illegal immigrants.
By only offering these paid internships to illegal immigrants UCLA is not only
hurting law abiding citizens who are of all ethnicities including Hispanic, but
they are also promoting and sponsoring people who are breaking the laws of our
state and country. [This] is ironic since some of their funding comes from the
state in which they are advocating for people to break this state's law,”
Alexis Moran, a second-year Hispanic student at UCLA told Campus Reform.
That's exactly right. UCLA, like any other school, is supposed to
provide a fair, balanced and objective education for students to learn and form
their own opinions on issues of the day. Instead, schools like UCLA serve as
nothing more than progressive indoctrination camps to brainwash "young
skulls full of mush," as Rush Limbaugh would say.
This story is just the latest example of that.
In addition, as I have previously
documented, California is already overly
generous to illegal aliens and with stories like this, it seems like the
state becomes even more generous to illegals to the point where some day
anybody can just walk right into California and become a resident once they
enter the state and then proceed to become to progressive voters.
Which of course leads to fiscal
bankruptcy. It's just not right for us to be bending backwards for these
illegals, even if these students were here through no fault of their own.
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