UW president has misplaced priorities
So Mark Emmert, president of the University of Washington, thinks that children of illegals deserve to go to the university? [“Undocumented students backed,” NWSaturday, Jan. 23].
What about citizens who have lost their jobs because of outsourcing and manufacturing jobs moved to foreign countries? It is strange that 15 million unemployed workers — more that have run out of benefits — and college graduates unable to find jobs don’t seem to matter to Emmert! College is the answer for misplaced workers.
So Emmert thinks that children of illegals should be given places in college that could be filled with veterans or misplaced workers? Should prisoners take preference over citizens too? The American people do not want to reward lawbreakers with amnesty.
It’s about time our representatives thought about our citizens who are the biggest losers in the Dream Act, which would allow these illegal children to get state tuition to any college of their choice. Citizens get only in-state tuition in the state where they live.
Where, President Emmert, is the fairness in that? Are our educators as out of touch as our state government? Apparently at University of Washington it’s true.
— Kathleen E Bukoskey, Everett
Give space at UW to U.S. citizens
Who does this University of Washington president think he is? He sits there with his outrageous salary plus all the perks and we have thousands of our own state’s young legal citizens who would love to get to go to the UW. They can’t because this economy will not permit it to happen. People are broke!
If he has so much compassion about higher learning, why doesn’t he spend his own money to educate the illegal immigrant students and find another way to help our own children?
If the legislation he proposes is passed into law, we will be sending our nation into a tailspin and the economy would suffer more than you know.
Someone better put the brakes on this man and others like him. We don’t need to give away the farm after the horses already left the stable.
— Barbara Flinchbaugh, Auburn