On Oct.18, former Lt. Gov. Dan McKee ceremonially signed into law the Student Success Act which, promising in-state tuition to every alien, pits illegals and refugees against our native-born college-bound for limited available classroom seats and dorm beds at public postsecondary schools. Sen. Walter Felag, Rep. June Speakman and Rep. Susan Donovan each voted to pass this act.

“No matter your immigration status, you are a Rhode Islander,” gushed McKee, stinking like executive amnesty.

Census data indicates, between 2000 and 2020, the state’s Hispanic population — unlike other demographics — grew rapidly from 8.7% to 16.6%. That’s some 91,280 additional persons — greater than the whole population of Bristol County. According to the Providence Journal, Providence public schools alone have graduated at least 800 undocumented students over the past decade.

Rather than cut regulations and lower taxes to rejuvenate a stagnant, geriatric state — which would support small businesses and young American families — our Democrat Statehouse has decided to attract economic migrants by diminishing the stature of citizenship. Extending in-state tuition to them makes a competition out of college opportunities that were once the prerogative of our sons and daughters.

However, given courses in “Black Power” at URI (AAF366) and “Women and Madness” at RIC (GEND355), parents may not want their kids in our colleges anyway. But K-to-12 public schools are questionable too. Summer Reading 2021 for Providence teens included titles by race-hustlers Ibram Kendi and Jason Reynolds — alongside “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” featuring juicy memoirs of first-time sodomy.

At home in Bristol-Warren, the Cabral Cabal may have kept Simona Simpson-Thomas away from impressionable educators; but her practiced squalls of “racism!” are redundant when a Mt. Hope English teacher can instruct students on “white privilege” and Principal Deb DiBiase applauds. Little wonder, then, that Reps. Speakman and Donovan (both education insiders) introduced bill H5635 to drop the voting age to sixteen — empowering more of our youth to vote their teachers’ conscience.

In 2015, then Vice President Joe Biden divulged the result of nonstop immigration: “whites will become an absolute minority.” Since 2010, RI’s white population has shrunk by 8.6%, to 71.3% of the state today. Given the education establishment’s hostility towards the West (and its people), it’s injurious to promote college to any-and-all newcomers who don’t share our values, train them to spurn those values and then make them our next doctors, lawyers, teachers and policy-makers.

Latin-American-born lawmakers Rep. Grace Diaz and Sen. Sandra Cano, who respectively introduced and sponsored the Student Success Act, did so flagrantly pursuing their own racial self-interest. ¡Viva la Raza! Unless we can play the identity politics game with equal self-interest, we’ll be eaten alive by Diversity.

Zachary Cooper
 Bristol