Comments for Did Frankie Waters Vote to Make it Possible for Illegal Migrants to Receive Beaufort County Taxpayer Assistance? | Eastern North Carolina Now

We, who pay attention, found that at the Realtor Candidate Forum, Frankie Waters had changed his position from marching lock step with the far Left of his Center-Left Coalition, where Illegal Immigrants, residing in Beaufort County, should receive the same benefits as do citizens, as if it has always been the presented policy that BCCC would ferret-out the resident Citizens from the resident Illegals, which is simply not true.

The truth of the matter is that if there ever was an upgrade in BCCC policy, it has yet to be presented to the Beaufort County Commissioners. One needs to always be mindful of Commissioner Waters when he makes pronouncements of disputed facts. His habit with the full truthfulness of his statements exhibits a proclivity most reminiscent of Joe Biden's inability to be aware of, or profess the full truth, when the truth does matter.

Commented: Saturday, October 15th, 2022 @ 1:49 am By: Stan Deatherage

Here is a way for illegals to get tuition:

If you are not a citizen of the United States and you don’t hold any of the documents that make you an eligible noncitizen, then you do not qualify for federal student aid. However, you may still qualify for some types of state assistance and funding directly from your school of choice. You should contact the financial aid office at your school to find out if you should complete the FAFSA®.

So that means they can get the tution if the school says so. I think the policy actually says they can get money just not state money or county money. So where does that money come from? Fund raisers and donations. Money that could go to legal students, citizens of our community who will be deprived of the funds..

Commented: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 2:46 pm By: Cindi Cutler

"Qualified non-citizens"? Might that include DACA illegal aliens? That question needs to be answered. If it does not do so presently, it would not be surprising for Biden to expand it to include them. Beaufort County needs its own controls on this, NOT federal controls, which may be no control at all.

At the time the county commission voted on this, the information before them indicated it was open to illegal aliens and 5 of them voted for it anyway. That is enough for me that I would never vote for any of those five for any office ever again. I am not sure this after-the-fact proposed policy from the college president adequately protects the taxpayers, and it is not even yet adopted by the board of trustees.

Commented: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 9:29 am By: Conservative Voter

FAFSA is supposed to protect against illegal aliens using taxpayer money to attend our community college??? This is a federal program, and federal programs have turned a blind eye to illegal aliens in many respects. What actual checking do they do beyond just the applicant claiming he is a citizen?

A good example of how how stupid or diabolical feds just take illegal aliens' word for things, they do nothing to verify the actual age of someone who claims to be an "unaccompanied minor". They just take their word for it when they claie to be 16 or 17. European countries that have taken steps to verify age have found that over half of those claiming to be "unaccompanied minors" are in fact adults who are lying about their age. In Norway they actually found it was 90% of them lying that way.

Illegal aliens are very prone to buying social security numbers that are not theirs but will pass muster, so they can be very sneaky about these things.

Verification of legal status is critical any time our tax money is involved. I would also note that FAFSA is available to "qualified non-citizens" who at the moment do not seem to be illegal aliens, but who knows with the Biden regime how that might change.

Commented: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 8:28 am By: borderhawk

President Loope: That would be a welcome development to be hopefully presented at the next Commissioners' meeting.

Maybe, this will all work out for the best after all; however, this new development may well disappoint some of our more progressive commissioners, who are terrible at simple math, and even more atrocious at projecting future costs ... there is a very large, and demonstrably poor history here in this regard.

Commented: Monday, October 10th, 2022 @ 10:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

What is equally amazing to me is Ed Booth straight out says let anybody from any contry come here to school. It is almost like he is advocating for illegals to come to Beaufort County. Do we really need someone like him on the board? Both an Waters both back increased spending and raising taxes. Frankie sure has changed his tone since he got elected and we need to vote him out of office.

Commented: Monday, October 10th, 2022 @ 10:51 am By: Cindi Cutler

Thank you, Mr. Loope for doing something that the Frankie Waters majority on the commission refused to do, and that is adopt a policy against using these taxpayer funds for illegal aliens. The commissioners' interpreted your previous remarks on the subject that you wanted to use the funds for illegal aliens, and they intentionally left that door open to you.

I do have one question, though, and that is since your policy clearly does now exist on paper, what is being done to enforce it? One obvious way, for example. would be to use the e-verify system that is used for employment. I hope it is not an honor system, because that is useless and would make a mere paper policy a joke. Unfortunately, that is what is used on voter registration and we have seen far too many illegal aliens lie and illegally vote in American elections. Please answer that question. Of course, if you choose not to answer, that will be telling us a lot, too.

Commented: Monday, October 10th, 2022 @ 9:37 am By: John Steed

Mr. Loope, the correct legal term for those in our country illegally is ILLEGAL ALIEN. That is the term straight from the United States Code. Your putting it in quotation marks tells me you are a leftie on this issue. A non-citizen is a broader term that includes people who are here legally.

In the video of the commissioners meeting, the ruling coalition states that you wanted to use money for illegal aliens and they passed it with no restriction on that. Booth even said he wanted it used that way. The only ones who disagreed with Booth were Deatherage and Richardson. If you have since restricted it, thank you for doing so, but the commissioner majority clearly had NO intention of protecting our taxpayers that way. The video shows that beyond any doubt.

Commented: Monday, October 10th, 2022 @ 7:17 am By: borderhawk

The video of the commissioners meeting is clear. The budget does NOT restrict that free tuition money to US citizens. That issue is left up to the community college, and the president of the community college had told the commissioners he wanted to fund tuition for illegal aliens. One of the Democrats on the commission majority openly said he supported that and the rest of the majority did not care. Only conservatives Deatherage and Richardson expressed concern about Beaufort County taxpayers money being used to pay for illegal aliens. Most of the discussion on that issue happened about ten or more minutes into the video. The video shows that five of our commissioners knowingly facilitated use of our county taxpayers money to fund tuition for illegal aliens at the community college. Shame on them.

Commented: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 9:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That video is almost two and a half hours long. Where in it is the part about the tuition for illegal aliens at the community college?

Commented: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 6:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer