A Massachusetts-based immigration enforcement activist is appalled that a private school in her state is offering a scholarship for an illegal alien.
Hampshire College is a small liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts, where school officials have announced that an endowment and scholarship will finance one illegal alien's education every four years. So, beginning this fall, a student will receive an annual scholarship of at least $25,000.
Jessica Vaughan, a former foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department who now serves as director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, thinks "it's appalling."
"We're talking about someone from a family that has benefitted from social services programs and all kinds of other publicly-funded benefits, when their family has not contributed anything close to that in taxes, who is scoffing at our laws by being here in the first place," she asserts.
And Vaughan says it does not matter that the school is private.
"These are monies that are tax-exempt and are donated by people who get a tax break for doing so," she explains. "And this is money that could be used to help out a needy American citizen family, or even a family member of a legal immigrant."
The policy studies director says she has a better solution for how Hampshire College can financially help illegal aliens with private money:
"Give it to an illegal alien family to return home," Vaughan suggests. "That would ultimately be a much better deal for the American taxpayer and do more for our country in the long run."