UNC Protest Gets Rowdy

A group of students from my Alma Mater were pepper sprayed during a protest of a speech being given by a former Colorado congressman who opposes in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants.

This can be a bit of a tricky situation. One one side, you could argue that giving in-state tuition benefits to illegals is wrong because they are not contributing taxes to the state university system. However, this is not always true. If illegals are paid under the table with cash - then yes, they are not paying taxes into the system. But, many illegals are paid through payroll and receive W2 forms at the end of each tax year. The catch? They provided false social security numbers when they submitted their W4 tax forms at the start of employment. What does all of this mean? It means that the Federal and State taxes taken out of their paycheck stay with the government and are not refunded - because an illegal immigrant can't file a return with a false social security number. This actually accounts for several billion tax dollars annually to the Federal government that it doesn't have to refund. Now it's easy to see one reason why immigration reform is moving at a snail's pace..