Illegal Immigrants Seek DREAM Center at Long Beach State

Here's the report, at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, "Building a DREAM Center: CSULB students seek resource center for the undocumented."

And from the letters to the editor yesterday, "Let’s provide college help to legal residents first":

Re “Building a DREAM Center: CSULB students seek resource center for the undocumented” (May 4):

It’s upsetting to read that $9 million is being given to undocumented-immigrant students attending colleges and universities in the California State University system and Cal State Long Beach.

The article mentioned how difficult it is to attend college by paying tuition and working part-time. That is everyone’s dilemma attending college. It is very expensive, and students have to work to pay for it.

Why not give the $9 million to those students who also dream of attending college and can’t afford it but are legal residents?

This is just another example of undocumented immigrants draining the system. This is not what our state tax dollars are for. These individuals are illegal residents; therefore they don’t have Social Security numbers and don’t pay their fair share of taxes.

— Betty Garcia, Lakewood

Well, you would think.

But you can't say stuff like that nowadays without being attacked as racist.