With undocumented students being denied a shot at community college, they will remain outside of the model of self-achievement that education provides. If they hope to learn a trade or improve their English, or even to specialize in a form of technology or academic discipline, they just got shut down.
What's even more disappointing is that the immigrant advocates quoted on the story, with all due respect to the work they do, yield to the narrative set by the anti-immigrant sentiment of this decision.
"They need to make sure in their zeal to deny public higher education to undocumented immigrants that they may deny those services to U.S. citizens who don't have documentation," he said.
Is that a powerful taking point? Does it represent the right to education we should uphold? Does my opinion, crafted from a comfortable desk in a relatively pro-immigrant California even matter? What do you all think?
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