Last week was Spring Break, so yeah, long time since an update.

I was perusing NBC Latino (for ideas for this blog) when I saw this:
http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/29/after-pressure-from-gop-rep-young-utters-the-words-i-apologize/

GOP Representative Young recently apologized for using the term 'wetback' to refer to farm laborers. This by itself actually does not incite much emotion in me. What does get me peeved is that I heard it from no other news organization. I check CNN, Time, and Foreign Policy daily and I didn't hear about this. I Googled 'msnbc rep young' and 'cnn rep young' and they did report on it, but I'm certain if they used a racial slur that targets blacks (I find 'African-American' to be a poor term for several reasons), it'd be absolutely plastered on the news and I would have heard about it the day it happened. I've heard arguments over 'oversensitivity' in reference to certain phrases (Jeremy Lin's 'Chink in the Armor') but with this issue, the sensitivity may not be high enough.

Sure Representative Young is 79 years old and he was alive during Operation Wetback (it's from the 50's), but come on, that's not really a valid excuse here. It's just indicative of the Republican party in a lot of ways. Nobody is surprised that a Republican said it, but I guarantee if a Democrat said something like this everyone would be shocked. (I'm apolitical right now, please don't assume I'm picking sides.)

It's been too long since a post, so sorry about that readers.

So the recent sequestration has actually stopped the tuition assistance program active duty Army service members.
http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/08/army-suspends-popular-tuition-assistance-program-because-of-sequester-in-blow-to-soldiers/

Well, what does this have to do with immigration? The Colorado House just gave approval to a bill that gives in-state tuition to 'illegal' immigrants. The bill was in the making for ten years though, far before 'sequestration' was  known. On its own I don't find a problem with that much. Having 'illegals' educated just means that they can contribute more to society. I am familiar with many of the negative stereotypes, so, who would actually want them to be as illiterate and uneducated as those stereotypes? If this group is unable to access education (especially in an age where it considered essential to have a bachelor's degree, regardless if it is or not) then we're practically repressing them.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22722022/colorado-house-takes-up-state-tuition-illegal-immigrants

Now, as someone familiar with Army personnel, I take a different stance. I just feel that the colorado House  may need some reordering in their priorities. Give in-state tuition to all vets maybe?  Sure, it can be argued vets already get enough assistance with collegiate level education, but really? Can't they at least get priority? The tuition assistance program is it unless someone counts the post-9/11 GI Bill, and that is only for after the service.

I am all for the former group to be educated and much more productive in America, but don't forget about the soldiers. We just had them roll through two wars.

Our country is in a huge amount of debt anyways, where is the money to fund this bill?