Don’t they need a SSN? Any number or NONE will do.
– They should speak/read/write enough English for the ed to
be useful. Do many illegals fit that? Yes most Mexicans can speak some English. Besides many or the classes are “ESL” English as a second language with emphasis on using the “system” and low level employment skills employment including basic computer usage..
– Most illegals come to work; where is the luxury of time to go to school? Dish washers, hotel people, cooks many construction people work second or third shifts. Nights, Saturdays, during layoffs when receiving support from spouses and relatives. When they are married to Americans but still undocumented.
There are educated Brazilians and Japanese on visas and overstaying their visas and getting free education, mostly English. I am happy for them they are either taking English and hopefully something good from our culture home or they are staying here and bringing something good to ours. Lots of happy yankees with Brazilian spouses.Yes it is true we could probably not get free Portuguese lessions in Brazil.
– It must be one generous employer to send those folks to school/pay tuition and what assurance the guy will work for the employer. If the guy was a laborer making $8 and becomes a plumber and can make $25, why would he hang on with the employer?
The employers are “partners” with the system on of the most prominent that I know of, “unnamed company” and the hotel chains. The carrot in front of the face of the employee is the promise of promotions INSIDE the company. “Unnamed company”, as far as, I know doesn’t employ illegal aliens but an inside source showed me a document that was a high level agenda to employ English language deficient people at higher levels of production. In other words make an American company more of a exclusive “sweatshop”. The continuing education system is facilitating this probably innocently. There is zero tuition. I don’t know if this company pays or if they are just “good partners” in the community. I am sure their efforts cost them something and you and I too.
– If it is non-credit, usually there is no state support. It is paid for by the student/sponsor.
The budget primarily comes from the state. Many of the students are in fact “sponsored” mostly east Africans at this time. Iraqis next if policy follows a similar path say as Vietnam. Actually we already have a good Iraqi community in San Diego.I notice it most in Rancho San Diego where there is large Chaldean center. They take classes side by side with undocumented individuals.
I hope their is an element of altruism in supporting these new comers. In fact America(governments and corporations) hopes for a return and is doing much of what are original poster is upset about .
I would hope that anyone who expresses hatred for them would at least separate the programs from the people. The saddest part is that I think many still don’t trust us(in part due to attitudes like, the original poster’s being something they face or fear facing, all the time. This crap certainly can’t help us have a better, more cohesive society. As I said on another thread….one should go read the sirnames of the fallen(Americans) in Iraq before going on blabbing about how unfair all of this is.
One thing that bothers me about the original post is the the cadence and language used are akin to “Ebonics” while the poem is about about immigrants. I guess the intention is to be inclusive(sic)? We have a serious “home grown” welfare problem eg. Louisiana, racist clowning around isn’t going to help it.
Edit: The funding comes from State, Federal and Non-Profit sources depending on the objective of the class. There classes are also open and free to any of us. There are also quilting classes for elderly, gardening, parenting, parent child classes, almost anything one could think of.
