{"id":52173,"date":"2025-08-12T01:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=52173"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:40:57","slug":"washpost-editorial-board-complains-illegal-dacas-might-have-to-pay-higher-college-tuition-yet-their-readers-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=52173","title":{"rendered":"WashPost Editorial Board Complains Illegal DACAs Might Have to Pay Higher College Tuition, yet their Readers Disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Department of Education has opened investigations into five universities for offering scholarships that exclude U.S. citizens and legal residents in favor of undocumented students, including recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post\u2019s editorial board complained about this today<\/a>, saying that \u2018helping undocumented students\u2019 to \u2018afford\u2019 higher education \u2018isn\u2019t discrimination.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration is arguing in court that prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens is discriminatory against American students based on the protected class of \u2018national origin.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The Post utilizes several often-used left-wing memes related to immigrants, namely that these workers will \u2018do the jobs Americans won\u2019t do\u2019 when it said: \u201cThe American Immigration Council reports that many of them go on to fill essential roles in health care, education and tech \u2014 sectors facing urgent workforce shortages.\u201d The Post also uses the \u2018diversity is our strength\u2019 meme, when it says, \u201cThese immigrants make universities \u2014 and the country \u2014 richer, stronger and more intellectually vibrant.<\/strong>\u201d The Post also uses the left-wing meme of \u2018cost the U.S. government\u00a0far less than they contribute, financially and otherwise,\u2019 which has been repeatedly disproven.<\/p>\n

The median federal student-loan balance held by U.S. citizen borrowers who attended government colleges is roughly $30,000 presently. The average cost of college tuition & fees at public 4-year institutions has risen 141.0%<\/a> over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

Even in the comments attached to the Washington Post article, their own left-wing readers are not happy with their editorial stance. The Post\u2019s own \u201cAI-generated summary\u201d of the comments characterizes that they \u201cpredominantly express strong opposition to universities providing scholarships to undocumented students\u201d and summarize the comments as saying it\u2019s unfair to prioritize non-citizen illegals over American citizens.<\/p>\n

Even though the readership demographics of the Washington Post skew heavily left, with 59% identifying as liberal\/progressive and only 11% as conservatives, their own readers were upset and angry with the paper\u2019s position supporting illegal aliens over American kids:<\/p>\n

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State schools are typically heavily subsidized by state governments with tax dollars to provide lower-cost options for residents. The policy goal is to provide high-quality education to citizens who cannot afford it, but left-wing activists in college administrations and in the federal government, have been steering resources to illegal immigrants and their children instead.<\/p>\n

The media typically refers to these children of illegals as \u201cDreamers,\u201d a nickname that comes from the proposed DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), a never-passed bill that aimed to give certain undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a path to legal status.<\/p>\n

The universities under investigation are:<\/p>\n