BCCC has students from several other counties around us. Will Beaufort County be paying their tuition and fees? Will their own county be doing it? Or will they have to pay it themselves? Beaufort County taxpayers should not be on the hook for any of this, but it becomes even worse if they are not even Beaufort County citizens. If a BCCC student comes from Hyde or Washington County, for example, who pays for their tuition and fees?
With illegal aliens, FAFSA covers "qualified non-citizens" and that includes those seeking asylum, which includes a huge percentage of illegal aliens coming into this country. They are taught to claim asylum even though very few of them will actually qualify for it if they show up in court. Most of them know that, too, and never show up for court. Who besides bona fide Beaufort County citizens can get this "free" tuition? The Frankie Waters majority hung the taxpayers out to dry on that one. |
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.. |
Further research shows that FAFSA in fact DOES include quite a few non-citizens, including green card holders, conditional permanent resident, and "asylum seekers", among others. Considering that just about everyone who illegally crosses the border these days tries to claim asylum, and the Mexican human smuggling cartels school them on how to do that, this would mean a great many illegal aliens are in fact eligible. This article shows who is eligible for FAFSA:
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"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. |
Borderhawk: Politics /governing is often about advocacy of a true intent to do the work of the People and that is why words spoken in public, for the public, matter greatly.
Also, that is why all business must be done in public with full transparency. All elected representatives should pause to remember this one truth. |
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. |
Sooo! Mr. Loope stated something was a policy that in fact is at present only a PROPOSED policy, not yet approved by the Board of Trustees. I hope they approve it to keep our tax money from going to illegal aliens.
It looks like the college is doing something the county commissioners should have done. They left the barn door wide open for the money to go to illegal aliens. They did it knowingly and with one of the governing coalition members openly stating he wanted the money to go to illegal aliens. But there is a bigger issue here. "Make college free" is a national policy objective of the left wing of the Democrat Party. Why in the world is a supposedly Republican majority on our county commission carrying out a national leftwing Democrat policy objective? Beaufort Promise is something AOC or Bernie Sanders could have produced. |
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. |
Commissioner Deathrage: I will be pleased to provide the County Commission with our policy and procedure for Beaufort Promise, which specifically state that no Beaufort County funds may be used to fund tuition and fees or cost of attendance for non-citizens of the US. I need to gain approval of the documents by the Board of Trustees first. Also, it would be impossible for a non-citizen to obtain County funds, since doing so requires completion of the FAFSA, which requires identification of citizenship status. —DL
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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.
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Thanks John Steed. For the necessary enforcement to be effective to insure that no Beaufort County Tax money is ever used, there will have to be a determination by verification which students are here legally, and which are not.
To be clear, and even though it is my determined effort to aid in blocking the unconstitutional, possibly treasonous Biden /Harris Wide Open Border and Resettlement Project, I do not have a problem with Illegals using BCCC; they must, however, pay for that education in full. |
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.