Letter: Immigration policies lack logic

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 | 9:24 a.m.

Education is always in the news but never directly linked to consequences. It is generally understood that higher education usually leads to better jobs, increased living standards and an improved economy.

Then why is it that if someone with a student visa attends a university here, paying out-of-state tuition rates, they usually must leave our country after graduation? However, an illegal immigrant residing here may attend these same institutions of higher learning at taxpayer-subsidized in-state rates and, it seems, are never asked to leave.

Something is very wrong with this sort of perverse logic.

RICHARD RYCHTARIK

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