FAYETTEVILLE N.C.
North Carolina community college leaders who will be meeting later this week plan to discuss whether to admit undocumented immigrants to degree programs after federal officials told the college system it was up to the state, a newspaper reported on Aug. 11.
Audrey Bailey, a community college spokeswoman, said the discussion will take place during a monthly board meeting Thursday and Friday, The Fayetteville Observer reported.
Officials are looking at a decision made in May to bar immigrants in the country illegally from degree programs. Officials said at the time they wanted to get guidance from federal immigration experts.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was the state’s call and that no federal law banned immigrants without documentation from studying for degrees.
Tony Asion, director of the Raleigh-based advocacy group El Pueblo,
