Oregon Democrats have used a favorite trick to keep Oregon voters from weighing in on giving in state tuition to illegal aliens.

According to our friends over at the group Oregonians for Immigration Reform, written into the law is an “emergency clause” which is the favorite ploy of all lawmakers. Stating something is an “emergency” ensures the law is enacted within 90 days and precludes any citizen efforts to refer the issue to the ballot. Discussions have been under way to refer the issue to the ballot.

Section 5. of House Bill 2787 reads: 

This Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and emergency is declared to exist, and the 2013 Act takes effect July 1, 2013. 

In other words we are prevented from putting the bill in front of the voters because of the emergen

cy clause.  The last thing that Senator Peter Courtney and Representative Michael Dembrow want is a public vote on the bill.  And you thought all of the crooked politicians were in Washington DC.

 

There is something profoundly wrong with giving in-state tuition to people who are illegally in the country. That notion of fairness and rule of law has eluded Oregon Democrat legislators who have been working overtime to give illegal aliens advantages that even US citizens don’t have. Calling the bill “tuition equity” is an insult to the intelligence. The word “equity” connotes inequity somewhere. Just where is the inequity in giving people who aren’t in the country legally out of state tuition? If you’re a kid from Wyoming and want to go to U of O, you have to pay out of state tuition! How is it fair to that kid?

The favorite trope of these “tuition equity” proponents is that illegal aliens were brought as kids ‘through no fault of their own.” As I’ve said many a time it IS someone’s fault: their parents’. Leave the rest of us out of it.

Here’s a look at the law:

In State Tuition for Illegal Aliens

However, the effort to give in state tuition to illegal aliens continues apace. The Governor is expected to sign the bill on April 2nd. 

And as I’ve told you over the years but more recently here and here, there’s an effort to give illegal aliens drivers licenses while simultaneously advocating for using only drivers licenses for voter registration. Frances Fox Piven could only dream of this one stop shopping for  voters.  Here’s what OFIR says about those efforts:

Their next push will be an attempt to give driver licenses to illegal aliens.   In essence allowing illegal aliens to drive to jobs they can’t legally hold.  Once again elevating illegal aliens over American citizens. 

Oregon’s unemployment rate (U-6) is above 16 % and we rank third in the nation behind only Nevada and California.   Yet there are members of the Oregon Legislature who obviously do not care about unemployed American citizens. 

Find your lawmaker and tell them this is wrong. 
http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/ by entering your address there.