Jackie - you touched on a sore spot for me - in most states (most recently, in Texas, too) foreign students go to our schools at the in-state rate or less! Furthermore, all that is required for a student visa is acceptance into any post-secondary school - even flight school - and not just jet flight schools, where a person might make a living with the education, but even these little Piper prop plane schools, with which you are almost certain to do no more with your education than have an expensive hobby! So, want to come to America? Go to bartending school! And since the student visas are never followed up on, the folks who have them stay here undetected for years, or even decades, only getting caught when running afoul of the law. Which, of course, by then is sometimes too late.
I would have no beef with this if 1) "student" meant you were learning a trade that you could be reasonably assured that would earn you a living IN YOUR NATIVE COUNTRY or you were seeking a degree 2) Your native country had no such similar school and 3) when your visa expired, you were gone, period. And I would have no problem eliminating #2 if full non-resident rates were paid by the foreign student.
But, anyway, just my opinion.....
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Anyway, I am torn about how I feel about this. I would love to have peace, of course, but we have to do something or we will be every crazy terrorists punching bag forever. I don't think we have a choice at this point. God bless our men in uniform.
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