North Carolina’s board of community colleges has voted to deny admission to illegal aliens. Amazingly, the current Democratic candidate for governor of the state, its present lieutenant-governor, Beverly Purdue, sits on the community-colleges board and is the one who made the motion that has now been ratified. Also amazing is this piece of common sense from a former mayor of Charlotte, N.C.: ”Our higher-education system is set up so that our country’s resources go to those who are here legally, not those who are breaking our laws.”

Really? We’re entitled to extend privileges to our own citizens over illegal aliens? We can choose not to act as a universal nation open to the entire world? We really do have the rule of law? Also amazing was the threat from La Raza that denying illegal aliens access to a college education could lead to higher rates of dropouts, teen pregnancy, and gang participation. A La Raza spokeswoman said, ”They may feel that there’s no point in working hard in school because they won’t be able to go to college anyway.”

This is the first I’ve heard that college helps prevent dropping out of high school, it being widely understood that dropping out of high school comes from students having a lot of difficulty with the work even at that level.