There are also many illegals(understatement) in non-credit adult ed. This is for the benefit of companies that need trained low skilled labor and probably to some extent our society . The companies contribute to the support of the system but revenue of course comes from taxes. I am not personally bothered by this unless I am grumpy about the benefits to the corporations.
I don’t know if this is still true, but refugees used to get grants to go to college when non -minority and maybe even minority, disadvantaged native borne individuals had to take out loans. This was late 1980’s and I was told by many grant recipients,Vietnamese and African mostly, that they were getting 5k per semester purely based on their refugee status.I also did not have a problem with them recieving it for the reasons Nostradamus pointed out in the first post. I have always been for the underdog anyway and these were all very nice kids.