# Presentation: 727422

## Education Access for All:Key to America’s Future Prosperity

- Presented by:
- National Korean American
- Service & Education Consortium
- June 9, 2008

## Undocumented immigrant AAPI youth

**Undocumented immigrant AAPI youth**

- 1.5 million undocumented AAPIs
- AAPI students make up 40% of the undocumented undergraduate population within the University of California system.
- There are **no nationwide studies** regarding undocumented immigrant AAPI youth.

## Truths!

**Truths!**

**Having a college degree is a boon to economies**
- High school graduates (18-64 years old) in **Massachusetts** earn about $10,000 more per year than high school dropouts. On average, high school graduates paid $455 more per year in state income taxes than high school dropouts did during the 2002/2004 period.
**Cost of dropping out is significant**
- In **Massachusetts, **high school dropouts imposed $1,567 more in cash and in-kind transfers and incarceration costs than they paid in state and local taxes. In sharp contrast, high school graduates paid $1,513 more in state and local taxes than they received in transfers or imposed in incarceration costs on state and local government.

## DREAM Act

**DREAM Act**

- If passed, would create a path to legalization for eligible undocumented students who either attend two years of college or serve two years in the military.

## Admissions

**K-12 **
*Plyler v Doe *(1982) Supreme Court case protects the right to access public K-12 education regardless of immigration status.
**Postsecondary**
- No explicit federal language barring admission.
- Federal law(8 C.F.R.§214.2(b)(7)) prohibiting certain foreign students from enrolling in a course of study does not apply to undocumented immigrant students.
- DHS statement: “ ...does not require any school to determine a student’s status ... also does not require any school to request immigration status information prior to enrolling students or to report to the government if they now a student is out of status...”

## In-State Tuition

**In-State Tuition**

- 	As of February 2008, ten states provide in-state tuition: California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Washington. With the passage of the Flat-rate Tuition Bill in 2008, Minnesota now offers in-state tuition rates for all students regardless of immigration status at 18 colleges.

## Impact If We Fail to Respond

**Impact If We ****Fail to Respond**

- Young talents unrealized and dreams unfulfilled
- Young immigrants forced to live in the shadows as second class citizens
- Wasted resources on social services and prisons and increased tax revenue for states
- Increase income inequities and poverty rates
- Falls prey and contributse to anti-immigrant sentiment
- Fails to uphold best of America’s values

## Additional Resources

**Additional Resources**

- Access to Education Guide, co-authored by NAKASEC & KRC
- _[www.](http://www.krcla.org/)__[krcla](http://www.krcla.org/)__[.org](http://www.krcla.org/)_
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Council of State Legislatures
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities

## Thank you!

**Thank you!**

- Contact information:
- 	National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
- 	www.nakasec.org
- 	Sookyung Oh, _[soh@nakasec](mailto:soh@nakasec.org)__[.org](mailto:soh@nakasec.org)_
-    323.937.3703, x206