Undocumented students getting a higher Education (University) What is the positive impact in our society???

Burt Cheevers: You might want to consider what the purpose of public education is in seeking an answer to your question.If the purpose of university is simply to prepare an individual for a higher paying job, then I see your point of doubt.If the purpose of education is to enlighten participants in democracy, then every person living in this country would seem to be as good a candidate as any other.Sooner or later, many undocumented workers become documented workers. Certainly the children of those workers or the very young immigrants have a tendency to remain here. My lawn man just got his citizenship. He's going to vote for the first time in 2 weeks. I hope and pray he can read a newspaper before he casts his ballot. Don't you? Or does the idea of a ;large and totally ignorant block of voters who get all of their ideas from television appeal to you?As long as they are going to be my neighbors, I prefer that they have some degree of education. Education is what pr! epares persons for life in a complex Society like ours. Either we pay for their schooling or we pay for their incarceration. Schooling is far cheaper and beneficial to all....Show more

Shan Lanen: one of the positive impacts will be, that a higher education becomes a tool to identify great talents among the millions of people that are living in this country talented people that can be at service to this country to improve in a wide range of areas where sadly the U.S is weak today.but if education is deny just because they don't have a document lots of talent will be lost,this country will remain divided a divided nation becomes weak a weak nation over time crumbles.many are oppose to the idea of undocumented students getting a higher education feeling perhaps threaten but the Truth is that the undocumented the last thing they want to do is bite the hand that is given to them, for many the undocumented represent a danger to the nation, but those who feel that wa! y , have to re think their positions and realizethat if the u! ndocumented becomes educated it no longer represents adanger it represents a shoulder that can help to lift all the heavy obstacles that this nation has to face in the road ahead....Show more