<p>epiphany, you are focusing on the UC system, and the figures quoted for 2007-08 were 406 undocumented students (.0018 percent of the UC population) benefiting from this law. That number may be somewhat higher now, but if UC’s numbers are anything like Texas’ numbers (where state aid is actually available to undocumented students–no federal aid is available to anyone, no matter what state), the number is still 1% or less. </p>
<p>So, bottom line, all of this handwringing is over 400+ kids = 1% of the UC student population, and they are paying full freight, with NO aid.</p>
<p>Economically speaking, it hardly seems that the UC system’s fiscal woes turn on this issue.</p>