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Page 4, August 19, 2024, The Islander Publisher's Statement THE ISLANDER (USPS 002430), A member of the Georgia Press Associa tion and Glynn County’s only weekly newspa- per is published 51 weeks a year for $43 per year in Glynn County and $53 per year in the United States outside Glynn Comity by Permar Pub lications, Inc., 1604 B Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA 31525. Periodicals post age paid at Brunswick, GA. The Island er is also available to subscribers onhne at theislanderonline.com. Contents of The Islander, including advertising, may not he reprinted or re produced in any form without written permission of the publishers. POST MASTER send address change to The Islander, P.O. Box 20539, St. Simons Island, GA 31522. Publication Deadline Publication Date: Every Monday Deadline: Thursdays, 12 PM for ads and news copy for the following Mon day’s edition. 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King Phone Number 912-265-9654 email: ssislander@bellsouth.net Web: theislanderonbne.com Award Winning Newspaper 1975 1980 1985 • 1976 19811992 1977 1982 1999 1978 1983 2002 1979 1984 2008 2012, 2016 D.A. King: Looking for a Better Life by D.A. King Proprietor of lmmigrationPoliticsGA.com and President of the Marietta-based Dustin Inman Society Fact checking anti-enforcement Dual Enrollment nonsense “Although Plyler was a seminal case concerning undocumented students’ access to education, it had several sig nificant shortcomings. Most notably, it applied only to K-12 public education, so federal and state laws that bar un documented students’ access to post secondary college education remain in place today.” From the Columbia Law Review, September, 2018. The landmark 1982 Plyer v Doe Su preme Court decision began when a Texas school district tried to exclude illegal aliens from an education by charging tuition in K-12 public schools. Without getting into eye-glazing detail, as stated above, the decision requires American taxpayers to fund a K-12, public school education regardless of student’s immigration status. School districts cannot ask about immigration status. The Hometown Weekly that brings subscribers Detailed Local News* Mostly from people who want to continue the lunacy of including illegal aliens in Georgia’s Dual Enrollment (DE) program, we are hearing the ri diculous assertion that the Plyler v Doe SCOTUS ruling somehow prevents ex cluding illegals from DE “because we can’t ask them about immigration sta tus.” Nonsense. We don’t need to ask - merely re quire that all DE beneficiaries be ei ther U.S. citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents (aka a “green card” holders). According to the Georgia Depart ment of Education “Dual Enrollment is designed to prepare students for col lege and career opportunities leading students to postsecondary institutions for an industry-recognized certifica tion or licensure, an associate and/or higher college degree, and successful employment.” Dual Enrollment is high school (K- 12) students attending college (post secondary) classes. Georgia taxpayers are paying 100% of the college tuition - and books and fees. Here, we need to be reminded that illegal aliens are not eligible for em ployment under federal law. Why are we prepping them for a career? Is it a nod to an upcoming amnesty attempt? College classes are not K-12. The very fact that tuition is involved clearly separates Dual Enrollment (DE) from K-12. Nothing in Plyler v Doe applies to DE. It’s true that school districts are prohibited from asking K-12 stu dents about their immigration status. But it is not necessary to ask about im migration status to keep illegal aliens out of DE - just as Georgia excludes them from the recently instituted K-12 “school choice” benefit (see line 342 of 2023’s SB 233). The 2025 state budget has more than $91 million ready to go for the DE program. Several years ago, the Republican- ruled General Assembly put a limit on the number of class hours any DE stu dent could take instead of excluding the illegal aliens. Put another way, Repub licans reduced the access for Americans and legal immigrants by including the illegals. About 4,000 illegal aliens graduate from Georgia high schools each year ac cording to recent figures from the leftist “The Guardian” news outlet. How many illegal aliens are getting a no-cost college education courtesy of our tax dollars from the DE benefit? Including this writer, for most pro enforcement conservatives, one is too many. 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