File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-07-14.151, message 69


From: "Mario A. Caro" <ario-AT-uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Loan legistation
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 07:55:36 -0400 (EDT)


This is in resoponse to the person who requested the message I forwarded to
the group on proposed legislation that would prevent anyone other than U.S.
born citizens from being eligible for financial aid.

Please note:

Most of these lists have an archive. I was able to retrieve this from
gopher://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU:70/11/pubs/listservs/spoons/postcolonial.archive

for the third-world women archive use the same addess but substitute the
following after /spoons/:

third-world-women.archive

Mario A. Caro
Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester
        and
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
University of Amsterdam

ario-AT-uhura.cc.rochester.edu

> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:00:54 CDT
> > From: Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem-AT-ix.netcom.com>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L-AT-MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
> > Subject: URGENT: HR-4 TO BLOCK AID FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS
> > 
> > Subject: No Financial Aid for Non-US born Citizens/Residents!!??!!
> > Dear DNS faculty, students and staff:  I am forwarding the following
> > message regarding pending legislation that would restrict student aid
> > to anyone who is not 'born' in the US, regardless of their resident
> > status (even naturalized US citizens).  The implications of this
> > legislation are far reaching, not just for the quality of our student
> > pool, but more so as a reflection of a growing xenophobia in this
> > country.  Please consider these another implications of this
> > legislation and contact your representatives in the Senator and House.
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > Jere Haas
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > RE:     No Financial Aid for Non-US born Citizens/Residents
> > 
> > Whether or not you were born in the US, the following is some
> > information which important to us all.  Spread the word.
> > 
> > I thought the following issue would interest you.  It hasn't received
> > much attention yet, because it's still a bill going through Congress.
> > What it all boils down to is this:  If HR-4 passes, students who are
> > permanent residents, even NATURALIZED U.S. citizens, will no longer be
> > eligible for financial aid -- Stafford loans, Perkins loans, Pell
> > grants, etc., even though these citizens and LEGAL immigrants have been
> > paying taxes all along.  The qualifying factor for student financial
> > aid, according to 4HR-4, is having been BORN in the United States.
> > NOTE:  This is no longer an attack on illegal "aliens", but on people
> > who have entered the country LEGITIMATELY and who are trying to
> > continue their contribution to this society through attainment of
> > higher education.
> > 
> > PLEASE help increase awareness of this issue by letting as many people
> > as you can know about what Congress is attempting, and contact/write to
> > the senators and representatives of your district to express your
> > position on the matter.  We need to kill the bill at its early stages.
> > 
> > WARNING: THE US GOVERNMENT WANTS TO TAKE FINANCIAL AID FROM STUDENTS
> > 
> > In addition to a bill recently passed in the Senate to cut Federal
> > loans programs by $10 billion, the Senate and the House have both
> > passed bills that will effectively curtail student aid benefits to
> > LEGAL immigrants, including Pell grants, subsidized Stafford loans, and
> > other federal financial aid programs.
> > 
> > These proposed cuts, hidden deep within a welfare reform bill (HR 4),
> > are to be achieved through a process known as "Alien Sponsor Deeming",
> > in which the income and assets of an immigrant's sponsor are added to
> > the immigrant's own resources in determining eligibility for government
> > financial aid programs.  Since most immigrants must have a sponsor in
> > order to immigrate here legally, deeming would disqualify many legal
> > immigrants from receiving aid by falsely inflating their income and
> > wealth.
> > 
> > WHO WILL BE AFFECTED?
> > 
> > *A new draft report issued this month by the General Accounting Office
> > in Washington, D.C. states that 390,000 legal immigrants received Pell
> > grants nationwide in 1992-93.  The Pell grant program is designed to
> > help the neediest students and has a maximum award of $2,340 per year.
> > 
> > *In California, legal immigrants make up 32.6% of Pell grant
> > recipients.  An analysis performed by the UC president's office found
> > that more than 25% of UC students who receive need-based aid are legal
> > immigrants.
> > 
> > *In New York, legal immigrants make up 26.5% of Pell grant recipients.
> > In Florida, the total is nearly 16%.
> > 
> > *The Senate version of this bill (S. 269) would also restrict aid for
> > naturalized citizens.
> > 
> > *The bills now under consideration would essentially affect anyone who
> > was not born in the United States.
> > 
> > *A total of $21 million in Pell grants and $31 million in subsidized
> > loans could be lost among the nine UC campuses alone.  These
> > restrictions will affect private colleges as well.
> > 
> > *As Permanent Residents of the United States, legal immigrants have
> > been eligible for federal financial aid for many years.
> > 
> > *Permanent Residents pay federal income taxes and are subject to the
> > draft.
> > 
> > *The bills now being considered by a Joint Committee of the House and
> > Senate would restrict benefits to many legal immigrants by changing
> > eligibility requirements.
> > 
> > *Two classes of citizens would be created, and legal immigrants would
> > effectively be denied opportunities for higher education.
> > 
> > WHAT CAN YOU DO?
> > 
> > A list of those members of Congress who are on the Joint Committee
> > considering these bills will soon be made available. We will try to
> > organize letter-writing, faxing, calling, and emailing campaigns. We
> > will also try to get in touch with local and national news media.
> > Ethnic newspapers definitely need to be targeted.
> > 
> > More specific information on what you can do will be coming in the next
> > few days.  If you are interested in working on this issue or getting
> > more information, contact the ASUC Executive Vice President's Office
> > at:
> > 
> >       Phone: (510) 643-9830
> >       Fax:   (510) 643-6396
> >       Email: urd-AT-uclink2.berkeley.edu
> >              asucexec-AT-ocf.berkeley.edu
> > 
> > Thanks for your attention and support!!!
> > 
> > Felicia Sze, ASUC EVP
> > Elaine Kwei, Interns Coordinator-ASUC EVP
> > Carolyn Lee, Asian Pacific Islander Students for Affirmative Action
> > 
> > ,|,         "GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND, AND I'LL MOVE THE EARTH"
> >  (o o)                ---- Archimedes (long, long ago)
> >   (_)                 ---- Miguel Don Green (now and forever)
> > < |"|
> >   """         http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~donmigl
> >  _\ /_        P.O. Box 7368, Stanford, CA 94309
> > 
> > Jere D. Haas, Ph.D.
> > The Nancy Schlegel Meinig Professor
> >    of Maternal & Child Nutrition
> > Division of Nutritional Sciences
> > Savage Hall #211
> > Cornell University
> > Ithaca, New York 14853-6301, U.S.A.
> > Telephone: 607-255-8001
> > Fax: 607-255-2608
> > E-mail: jdh12-AT-cornell.edu
> > 
> > Barrie Thorne                           Office phone: 510-643-1073
> > Dept. of Sociology                      Office fax: 510-642-0659
> > 410 Barrows Hall
> > Univ. of California                     Home phone: 510-549-0803
> > Berkeley CA 94720                       Home fax: 510-845-4030
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Naeem Mohaiemen
> > naeem-AT-ix.netcom.com
> > ______________________________________________________
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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