The local press has just underscored another limitation to Governor Brown's overt sop to gather more Latino votes in enacting state tuition for illegals.
Even if an illegal immigrant goes to college and earns a bachelor's degree, that individual will never qualify for a high-paying career (which is the express intent of many enrolling in post-secondary education in the first place!).
A young lady who wanted to be a teacher may earn the units and the degree, but because she is not a citizen, she can never file the paper with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and she can never be hired by a school because she has no social security number.
Undocumented immigrants are exactly that: undocumented, or as they are labeled in Spain: "sin papeles" (without papers). Without papers, without proof of a residency, an individual cannot apply, let alone be hire for a job beyond the low-skilled employment in which illegals are able to live in the shadows, not paying income or SSI taxes off of their wages.
Once again, overt disrespect of the privileged status of citizen has created more problems for the very people whom laws like the DREAM Act were intended to help.
If the United States government truly wants to improve the immigration process in this country, they need to streamline the process, eliminating unnecessary bureaucratic tangles, shortening the waiting time, and providing efficient means for prospect migrants to enter this country. Rather than attempting to shut out the scores of individuals with a legitimate, and moral, desire to live in the United States, the Federal Government must do away with the Great Society welfare state which attracts so many wishing to engorge on the public troughs, both legal and illegal residents.
No more welfare state, simpler immigration process, and the number of illegals living in the shadows will decrease, inviting more people to seek legal status and becoming meaningful and productive members of this country.
Once legal, then they can apply to four-year colleges for advanced degrees and pursue the career of their choice. But let's stop tantalizing those who have broken the law with "almost-citizenship", permitting them to crowd out legal applicants to post-secondary study who upon graduation can do very little with the learning and accreditation which they have earned.