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MY FOX Boston - Under the law, Catherine O'Malley's adopted daughter Alexis is supposed to receive free tuition and fees to any state college. She has all the paperwork from the state showing her daughter meets the criteria under the Massachusetts Adopted Child Tuition and Fee Waiver Program. O'Malley told FOX25 the program was put in place years ago as an incentive to encourage more people to adopt foster children. It wasn't until Alexis, a Marshfield High School graduate, had started her freshman year at Bridgewater State that she found out she would likely owe thousands more than planned because the state wasn't keeping its end of the deal. O'Malley says she found out after a visit to the school's financial office. "You should know they probably won't pay it, and I dismissed her! I said, you know, we have it in writing. I adopted her through the state. She says yeah, I know, they just don't fund it. I thought she was wrong. Of course she was wrong. I had this thing in writing! I went to court!" The State Department of Higher Education says 256 children are in the same boat. This year, only 50 to 55 percent of the fees will be covered. Hedlund says, "It is somewhat ironic that the governor has advocated very vocally for in-state tuition for families of illegal aliens and hasn't really advocated for this particular program at a time when we have much more significant need. I mean, we have five-thousand children waiting to be placed." We asked Gov. Patrick about that. He said, "We don't have in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants. Reporter: "But you proposed it." Gov. Patrick: "You know where I stand on them my opinion hasn't changed. We don't have the resources to fund the program that you're referring to 100 percent. You know that. You know we've had to make a lot of cuts but I'm proud of the fact that we're doing the very best we can in a very important program." O'Malley says, "I certainly would have sympathy for children who have had a tough time. And if his thought is that these are children of illegal aliens who have made something of themselves, they have gotten themselves into college, let's give them a leg up! I'm not opposed to that. But if you don't have money for my kid and it's in writing and my child is not an illegal alien, she's an American child who was not born into the best of circumstances and there's a law saying you have to help her. I just don't comprehend it."
Boggles the mind. This is like Scott’s Tots on The Office, only real life so its no so funny. Except our leader is as challenged as Michael Scott.
I mean how, on the one hand can you promise tuition to illegal immigrants (whether you've funded it or not, you've proposed it and you're an idiot), and on the other hand not fund a tuition program for adopted kids? How morally bankrupt can you be? And again, why? How does this help politicians at all? THEY CAN’T VOTE! Why are you pandering to them? How about supporting actual citizens who grew up in an equally challeneging environment.
