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>>Where did this money come from? That's a lot of extra cash to have on hand when you are not a documented worker. Did they pay taxes on it? Did it come from illegal activity, other than the obvious? 315 currently enrolled is over 3 million dollars that came from somewhere.
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>Hard work, I imagine. It's my experience that most immigrant families are willing to work together for family goals. Certainly, that was true of previous generations of immigrants to the US. (Personal example: my mother's sisters allowed her to live when them rent-free in the summers when she was in college, so she could work to earn the tuition and board money. As a result, she became the first college graduate in her family.)

I don't know your experiences, but for some reason I just don't see you living in a hispanic neighborhood and having much direct contact with illegals. Then again, maybe they typed your books for you. Like I said, I don't really know.

I think that's great about your mother. Was she here legally when she went to school?

>Given that so many of the illegal immigrants have come here because they can't earn enough to live (or enough to advance in life) in their home countries, I see no reason not expect those families to save together to send their children to college.

Great, are there no schools in Mexico? Why can't they go there? Oh, that's right, they need money. And the only place to get that is over here. Illegally. I get it now. Thanks!

>I'll also point out that the article said there were 340 illegal immigrants out of 271,000 students in the whole system. That's .125% (one-eighth of one percent) of the student body. Seems like there are more important issues to worry about.

I see it as more like $3,000,000 that I would like to know where it came from and where the tax revenue from the earnings is.