Schwarzenegger vetoes California DREAM Act
Here’s the Governator’s veto message sent yesterday on the California illegal alien tuition discounts bill known as the “DREAM Act:”
To the Members of the California State Senate:
I am returning Senate Bill 1 without my signature.
At a time when segments of California public higher education, the University of California and the California State University, are raising fees on all students attending college in order to maintain the quality of education provided, it would not be prudent to place additional strain on the General Fund to accord the new benefit of providing state subsidized financial aid to students without lawful immigration status. Under existing law, undocumented students, who meet the required criteria, already qualify for the lower in-state tuition rate while attending California public colleges and universities.
Therefore, I cannot sign this bill.
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
He rejected a similar bill last year:
“While I do not believe that undocumented students should be penalized for the acts of their parents, this bill would penalize students here legally by reducing the financial aid they rely on to allow them to go to college and pursue their dreams,” Schwarzenegger wrote in his veto message last year.
Under this year’s bill, Cedillo eliminated competitive grants that the governor mentioned in his message. Illegal immigrant students would only be eligible for grants that are available to all students who qualify based on academic achievement and financial need.
Meanwhile, Former Mexican president Vicente Fox was in Los Angeles, still lobbying for the DREAM Act and other illegal alien benefits, and in Laredo, decrying walls and fences.
Sovereign Nation or Sanctuary Nation. Our choice. Not his.
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This is progress.
We are a “Sovereign Nation” of laws not men. Vicente should go back to Mexico. No hard feelings, just leave.
People with no gumballs: You’re terminated!!!!!!!
Schwartzenegger is a model of political chaos — totally unpredictable and unreliable. While this may be a good move for California, his recent signature of the educational bill and his signature of the bill requiring micro-id’s on bullets fired from semi-automatic pistols reminds us of his Stalinist tendencies.
I’ll take what I can get…meanwhile don’t try smoking in your car w/someone under the age of 18 present or else you’ll get terminated…Arnie DID sign that one…
IMPORTANT QUESTION:
Is this an actual VETO or did he just decide not to sign it?
The Governator had three options:
1) Sign it and pass it into law.
2) VETO it and prevent it from passing.
3) Do not sign or VETO and allow it to pass into law by default.
Which did he actually do?
It’s listed as a veto here.
The legislation was pretty unbelievable. Illegals already get a break in CA by qualifying for resident tuition rates, but that was not good enough. Pretty incredible a bill to give them more made it all the way to the governor’s desk.
As for Arnold being a model of political chaos, I cannot disagree with that assessment. He just signed a bill pushed by the gay and lesbian lobby that bans the use of the terms “mom”, “dad”, “husband”, “wife” and similar words in California schools. That same bill also allows children to use whatever restroom or locker room they wish to use, consistent not with their physical gender, but with their desired gender.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58130
Talk about chaos.
Vincente go back to Mexico?
Heck, with what’s going on in Mexico right now with regard to Mr. Fox, I’m starting to think the only way he’s going back to Mexico is if we deport him.
While he Vetoed this, he did sign AB14 and AB777 that now bans saying marriage is between a man and a woman in school and makes it a criminal act if a parent states this belief on school property or at a school function.
Schools will now start teaching gender neutrality starting in Kindergarden.
With the three headed monster still flying around in Cal, this is good, cut the guy a break people. I agree with zorro, this is progress.
A bit off topic, but this is a new one on me:
I saw Fmr. Pres. Fox on with John Stewart. He said he would like to have Canada, US and Mexico and other parts of Central America mirror the European union . He would like to see us all as one country with one currency.
Almost in the same breath he was accusing the people against this suggestion and for building fences as xenophobes.
I almost kicked the TV.
Thank you, Michelle, for confirming.
It’s nice to see he can stand up and make a decision.
One down, how many to go?
BTW,
Did you get the document I sent you which disproves the “Greenhouse Gas” theory? I’m hoping you can run with it.
While everyone is speaking of former Mexico President Vincente Fox, did anyone catch his interview with Larry King?
Glenn Beck did.
He broadcast the most important part, where Fox said that he and President Bush II were working together the merge North America and eliminate the dollar.
Anyone want to investigate this?
My personal feelings:
If Mexico wants its citizens to be citizens of the USA,
they should apply for statehood.
“…but that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.” —Dennis Miller
Of course, he would like a “union” with Canada and the U.S.. I’m sure I could find 2 people in my town that I would love to “union” with. How about me, Bill Gates and Donald Trump? Sounds good to me. Sounds like a typical democrat socialization plan; take from the successful and give to the unsuccessful and call it fair and balanced.
Well! Did he veto it or not? If he returns it without his John Hancock, and not write veto acroos it, will it become law? What’s the answer?
You don’t get what I’m pointing out.
This shows that Fox was working on this with BUSH!
Dear Mr. President,
Say, fella, whose side are you on?
Sincerely,
US citizen who voted for you twice.
Even though Arnold is all over the political board, one day acting like a conservative and the next day sounding like a drunk liberal like Teddy Kennedy. He hasn’t for got who put him in office and what was the number one issue that pissed off most Californian’s and started the recall movement of former Governor Davis, drivers licenses for illegal aliens.
Also Arnold observed that President Bush lost the support of the conservative base of the GOP not because Bush spends like a liberal or runs a war like a Democrat. Bush lost the conservative base because of his open border policies, his amnesty agenda and just refusing to enforce the immigration laws of our country.
Arnold knows that if he’s going to run for the U.S. Senate and defeat that useless Senator Boxer, he has no choice but to listen to the American citizens living in California. That with out the support of the conservative base who want our borders secured and our immigration laws enforced, he doesn’t have a chance defeating Boxer.
But by vetoing this California Dream Act, I’m sure Maria has locked the bedroom door and Arnold will be sleeping on the couch for a week or two.
Bush has been working with Fox for seven years to make every criminal in Mexico legal American citizens; what’s new?
It really helps if you read the whole thread.
Surprising since:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/12/news/top_stories/21_05_5710_11_07.txt
pressto said, “While he Vetoed this, he did sign AB14 and AB777 that now bans saying marriage is between a man and a woman in school and makes it a criminal act if a parent states this belief on school property or at a school function.”
Our only hope is if we collectively, rapidly and persuasively act on shutting down Government Education. The good people of this country have stayed silent and passive for far too long.
P.S. I am all for ceding the State of California to Mexico under two conditions:
1. We adequately fortify the borders and
2. They take Washington State (and Starbucks) too.
It is a start. When our Congress get some gummy’s we will start to see some progress on the national level.
Please, GOD, can we get rid of politicians?
Let’s put some moms in there – not politicians who are moms. Moms who are not politicians! My mom would have had this country running like a top on 1/10th of the money.
Vincent Fox will probably be seeking asylum he after this event:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301606,00.html
Look like the locals in Boca Del Rio, Mexico are less then impressed with Mr. Open Borders.
As far as Arnold’s actions, there are probably still enough Americans left in California that would rise up if he allowed this bill to pass on their tax dollars. At least the parts that haven’t been assimilated by invaders yet.
#14 – I heard the same thing and wonder what else V. Fox and Bush have been talking about. The border guards are still in jail and the President stands by Johnny Sutton as following the law. I don’t think so. Something is very, very wrong with that case.
For those who think a Mom can run the country better, you must see Mom’s Overture by Anita Renfroe on YouTube. She would get the job done! It is hilarious. Men will love it, too.
Like BUSH, Schwarzenegger is an enigma wrapped in a tortilla.
“Only here to take college courses Americans don’t want to do!” — GWB
Schwarzenegger is waiting for the Feds to pass theirs, so Kalifornia can scarf the federal bucks to fund the criminal alien welfare wagon.
The fact that he may have vetoed costly, unconstitutional legislation needs further investigation before the applause.
But then again, maybe I’m just a little jaded in my old age.
OH…was I the only one to hear Vicente Fox say that Mexico has the lowest unemployment rate in the Americas? The interview was on the WBAP website with Amy Chodroff. I don’t think I misunderstood, but I’d love some corroboration. If those were his stats, maybe it’s because the 10% of the people who would NOT be working down there are up here.
Well, as the mother of 4 University of California graduates (and being one myself), most of whom relied on financial aid to get through college, I say yea.
One of my kids, a former student at the HS where I worked at the time, was here on a student visa from Hong Kong. He found himself in the situation whereby he was going to have to go back if he didn’t find somewhere to live, so I took legal guardianship of him in his mid teens. He graduated from HS, and went on to a local JC, then transferred to UC Berkeley, from which he graduated in 2000. Got a job with Intel, made a sturdy salary, paid his taxes, he even paid his younger brother’s way through college at Cal as well…he was definitely an asset to our society.
But you know what? In all that time he was never able to get a Green Card and got no financial aid, paying the international student tuition at Berkeley–considerately more than his sibs paid. He had to go back to HK last year, and now he’s over there contributing to that economy instead of ours, even with over 10 years invested as an American.
There’s something hughly wrong with this picture.
Senate Bill 1 vs. AB14 and AB777
One step forward, two steps back.
Schwarzenegger shouldn’t be allowed to call himself Republican. However, based on what Republicans are doing now-a-days I guess he’s par for the course.
Sad.
I want my Ronald Reagan party back!!
BTW, Bob’s Kid, the reason your Hong Kong student couldn’t get a Green Card was because they’re saving them all up for the Mexican and Middle Eastern criminals.
-dfern
Yeah, that and the frequent purges he conducts, frequent disappearances of political dissidents, and mass graves full of communal farmers. He’s quite a Stalinist. /rolleyes
USMCgramma
That Mom’s Overture was hilarious…thanks!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this technically called a pocket veto? At the rate we’re losing ground in CA, I’ll take it as a win.
Arnold is another democrat in republican clothes. It’s republicans like him who are destroying the party.