The changes sought would affect more than 1 million people in the United States, more than half of them in Southern California. We need to end illegal immigration and abolish chain migration, a practice that allows approximately a half-million mostly uneducated and unskilled immigrants annually into this country. We should replace this newcomer segment with a Canadian-style point system that gives credit according to education and marketable skills. But only up to a point. The college application process blocks many.
Finances hinder even more.
Ineligible for federal aid, they are charged nonresident or international tuition rates - double or triple the normal tab. Three deportation orders were previously issued, and in one instance, Lehman said, Soto-Sanchez actually was put on a bus headed for Mexico. A counterdemonstration led by immigration-control activists is scheduled at 11 a.m. on Dairy Mart Road near Border Field. Together said Navarro's group has a radical pro-Mexico agenda that aims to reduce enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. They say it was brought on by the increasing militarization of the 2,000-mile border between Mexico and the United States.