S.C. bill may block college for illegal immigrants

Posted on April 7, 2008 
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Myrtle Beach Sun News
By Robert Morris
4/6/08

For participants in the state’s immigration reform effort, the upcoming ban on illegal immigrants in public colleges is a logical step.

It makes no sense, they say, for South Carolina to educate people who cannot legally work here. It merely encourages them to stay.

But for Dayana Rodrigues - who was brought to the United States illegally as a child, then learned English and graduated from Myrtle Beach High School in the top 5 percent of her class - such a proposal would crush her dreams before they really begin.

“Every single window will be closed for me because the door is already closed,” Rodrigues said.

A year into a college program for nursing, Rodrigues knows finding a job without legal citizenship will be extremely difficult, even though there is a nursing shortage across the country.

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