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TODAY'S QUESTION

This is the daily feature of the Wall Street Journal. Monday through Friday.

Today's question is

"Should illegal immigrants be eligible to pay in-state tuition at public colleges?"

I said 'YES'.

I live in California.

The rest of the respondents said 14% YES and 86% NO.

They don't live in California.

I say yes because I don't see anyway for the immigrant, legal or otherwise, to get up and out without the opportunity to do so.

We let them work while they live here and go to public schools. Why not the local colleges?

First let's real about illegal immigration. Without it our economy here would be badly hurt.

There are a bunch of guys coming to my house today to prune trees. I am not going to check for their green cards.

Believe me, even if I was a hard boiled Minuteman and tried to get non-immigrant labor to do the job I could not do it.

These are the people who will do the jobs that no one else will or is available to do. And there are plenty of those jobs.

Unemployment is at a low right now.

And so on.

I am really voting against our present duplicitous immigration policy which keeps a lot of brown skin people at the poverty level by keeping them on the run. A form of involuntary servitude.

I have to say that I am not going to pay these people who prune my trees any more than they ask me for. I did not ask them how much they were going to charge though. That is my teeny liberal step for today.

It is a mess but I don't think that closed doors clean up messes.

I still vote YES.

And believe me, there are more than one or two illegal immigrants getting aid at Harvard too. Not public but..................well, you get my drift.

There I am. In the minority again.