The woman who sailed into her first elected term as Arizona’s governor on a tide of SB1070 popularity, is celebrating a new budget that will fund higher education for undocumented students. Jan Brewer has applauded the Senate budget, passed with little republican support, that includes money for a New Mexico based school that helps “Dreamers” dodge Arizona law.
Arizona currently prohibits in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
The Senate’s budget provides $875,000 to Navajo Technical College.
According to the Yellow Sheet, “the Manzana Foundation founded by Miranda and B. Miranda…. forged an agreement with the Navajo Technical College to fill up its classrooms at branches in Phoenix and Tempe,” with undocumented entrants.
In September 2012, the Capitol Times “reported that Miranda recruited mostly “Dreamers,” whose parents brought them illegally to the US as children, to the dismay of the college, which wanted them to recruit local Native American students,” according to the Yellow Sheet.
“Students going to Navajo Tech pay hundreds and even thousands less per semester than what they would pay for out-of-state tuition at state schools. Miranda began the collaboration with the school a couple years before Obama implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows young people to work in the US without threat of deportation,” according to the Yellow Sheet.
Navajo Technical College has an open-door policy for admission.