<p>How do the rest of the ones that are here legally or are US citizens feel about this move?
<a href="http://news.nd.edu/news/41844-notre-dame-will-admit-undocumented-students/%5B/url%5D">http://news.nd.edu/news/41844-notre-dame-will-admit-undocumented-students/</a></p>
<p>Here is a link to the mission statement of the University: [Mission</a> Statement // About ND // University of Notre Dame](<a href=“Mission | University of Notre Dame”>Mission | University of Notre Dame)</p>
<p>I think I, along with all the other people who go to Notre Dame, support this mission and recognize that the current decision forwards that mission, regardless of our political stance towards the issue of undocumented aliens in the US.</p>
<p>Go Irish</p>
<p>So much for God, COUNTRY & ND. Might as well scratch country out of that equation. By the way before anyone harps on me I’m hispanic & I’m married to an Asian immigrant. However we did things legally. Seriously there are many willing LEGAL resident & US citizens who should be placed ahead of anyone here illegally. ND has definately declined towards the leftist/liberal slide to Gommorrah.</p>
<p>By the way in the ND facebook page it didn’t seem that “all the other people who go to ND” supported this. You seem to be confusing the mission statement with this action.</p>
<p>I demand that all undocumented aliens immediately report to Kinkos’ to acquire the appropriate documentation.</p>
<p>Why don’t you call Notre Dame and tell them how you feel about this? I personally see both sides to this, the good and the bad but I love my Irish, we’ll just have to see.</p>
<p>It’s likely that most college applicants who lack legal status were brought to the US as children by their parents. They are not responsible for the actions of their parents. It’s also likely that very few of these applicants would actually qualify for admission to Notre Dame, and even fewer would accept the offer of admission if they had other solid options closer to their families. And because those who were admitted and enrolled would probably be classified as “international” students, they would not necessarily be displacing any U.S. citizen applicants. </p>
<p>I will be happy to stand corrected if Notre Dame is inundated with a flood of successful undocumented applicants, but don’t think that is going to happen. The University likes to appear liberal and tolerant in the eyes of its aspirational peers, especially when doing so does not necessarily contravene Catholic teaching. And if this new policy helps the University attract more legal Hispanic applicants who may regard it as a welcoming place, so much the better for its minority enrollments stats.</p>
<p>There has been a boom of undocumented workers in the midwest in the past 15 years. Farms are hiring the illegal hispanic workers to keep costs down. Maybe ND wants to help out the children from those families. They can’t all end up in California, Arizona and Texas.</p>
<p>I don’t see how an “undocumented alien” student differs from any other international student who uses a student visa. Certainly they (or more likely their parents) committed a crime by entering (or more likely not leaving) the country legally. Would you suggest that ND bans all students who have ever consumed alcohol illegally, even if they were never caught doing so? After all, the Catholic faith condemns drunkenness and the student handbook forbids illegal consumption while both are silent on immigration status.</p>
<p>I don’t see any contradiction between supporting Country and admitting “undocumented aliens”. It is not ND’s place to enforce immigration policy. The University is not targeting the recruitment of illegal applicants nor encouraging anyone to flaunt laws.</p>
<p>My guess is that Jesus did not ask for “proof of residency” when he fed the 5,000 or taught in the temple.</p>
<p>That’s got to be one of the most incoherent arguments I’ve seen on this board.</p>
<p>First, as a private church affiliated university ND is free to admit anyone they want (undocumented students receiving in-state tuition at state funded universities is a separate issue).
Next, this is really just a PR move. ND doesn’t want to be too conservative, they want to show support for the largely Catholic Hispanic population (legal and illegal), and to stay in the good graces of the academic world you must lean a bit to the left or be ostracized.
The truth is about 99.9 % of these students do not have access to the academic or financial resources needed to gain entry into an elite university. The few that make it are great success stories.</p>
<p>Notre Dame is a Catholic university and the Catholic Church supports a path to legalization for the undocumented.
[Catholic</a> Church’s Position on Immigration Reform](<a href=“http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/churchteachingonimmigrationreform.cfm]Catholic”>Catholic Church's Position on Immigration Reform | USCCB)</p>
<p>As a US citizen who is a Hispanic I’m curious to see if I will get admitted or denied admission.</p>
<p>Well if the colleges start to game the proposed new Obama Rating system, then they will start looking more favorably toward Pell grant recipients over non-Pell grant recipients. This is probably not a good year to be the upper middle income Hispanic US citizen.</p>
<p>Notre Dame isn’t known for the best financial aide. The move will not likely help the poor of any race.</p>
<p>Not sure who told you that, but Notre Dame gives great financial aid.</p>
<p>WWJD? What would Pope Francis do?</p>
<p>Catholic is more than just a name and requires Christian actions.</p>
<p>Way to go ND!</p>
<p>I think most colleges do not care about illegal immigration status in terms of admissions. Many don’t care when it comes to merit awards or their own money either. They cannot give anyone who is illegally here federal and most state funds, but a college can do what it pleases with its own money. A school that does not give international students fin aid or bars them from certain awards, would simply lump those here illegally as such. This has always been the case at most school other than the service academies and other such schools. </p>
<p>Something new is that some state colleges are now letting illegal residents still get in state rates if certain criteria are met.</p>
<p>Notre Dame meets full need as they define it for their US citizens. Don’t know what they do with international students, and that is how those here illegally will be classified. They have very little in terms of merit money.</p>
<p>Is it possible that ND just wants to consider each applicant as an individual as in not trying to make a political statement? There are several million high school students here who were brought across the border by their parents. There parents committed the crime. ND will not condemn the children for the sins of their parents.</p>
<p>Well, good for them.</p>