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University Refuses Tuition Aid for Combat Vets; Gives It to Mexican Illegals Instead
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: The University of North Carolina, which is currently giving illegal immigrants in-state tuition benefits, denied an Army sergeant the same break at its Pembroke branch even though she owns a home in the Tar Heel state and only moved away briefly because the military stationed her husband in Texas.
Hayleigh Perez, 26, hoped to use her G.I. Bill to attend the UNC’s Pembroke campus near Fort Bragg, but the young veteran — who served a 14-month tour in Iraq — was told she did not qualify as a state resident because she had been gone for about three years.
“I got frustrated. When I tried to inquire, they kept putting up roadblocks,” Perez told FoxNews.com. “It’s just disgraceful that life in Iraq, where you could die, is easier than trying to go to school here.”
Perez enlisted in 2005, and was stationed in Fort Bragg before shipping out to Camp Bucca in Iraq. That’s where she met her husband and fellow soldier, Jose Perez-Rodriguez. The pair married and, when their tours ended in 2006, bought their home in Raeford, N.C. They lived there until 2009, when Jose Perez-Rodriguez was assigned to a base in Texas. But they continued paying the mortgage and taxes on the North Carolina property while she accompanied him on his deployment for six months, and Perez has been in North Carolina for the past two years, she said.
persecutor
October 25th, 2012
I’m so mad, even Hat would censor my comment.
Suffice it to say we gotta make a radical change in the direction of this country in 11 days.
grayscape
October 25th, 2012
The VA has been refusing education benefits for years – even for vets who paid into the pre-911 GI bill…and also refuses to return the money.
Rick
October 25th, 2012
“But they continued paying the mortgage and taxes on the North Carolina property while she accompanied him on his deployment for six months, and Perez has been in North Carolina for the past two years, she said.”
Owning property, paying property taxes and two years of continuous presence sure smells like “residency” to me.
persecutor
October 25th, 2012
If they continued voting from there (absentee) then for sure it’s residency. If they changed their voting address to another state, it may not be.
AQT214
October 25th, 2012
Recall that Rahm Emanuel had left his residence in Chicago for a new residence in D.C. and was thus ineligible for the mayoral ballot in Chicago. That is, UNTIL a judge ruled that he had left due to a call of duty to serve in D.C. at Obama’s behest. From then on, the mayorship was his.
Mrs Perez should make a very very big f-ing deal out of this. Shame on UNC.
spymyeyes
October 25th, 2012
typical obumbles redistribution bullshit
Unneutral
October 25th, 2012
This country is so over-run by co*ksuckers it’s time to pick your target and commence firing.
venturaguy
October 25th, 2012
the property taxes are the clincher – sue their balls off
willie t
October 25th, 2012
“Recall that Rahm ”
for some reasons, chitcagoan bein one of them, he’s better than us
way past pist
October 25th, 2012
there ya FUCKING go…
one thing about being outta work for a few years – ya DON’T have to PAY for THESE assholes
dale
October 26th, 2012
I have spent the last 2 years at our founders properties, in Va and others.We currently have no leaders of this country in a long time. All we have and will soon vote for again are people without Honor conviction with no integrity whatsoever. I left Mt. Vernon yesterday and feel until we get someone with integrity and faith, we are lost. This is how our troops get screwed by leaders whom have no idea of sacrifice,as I and millions of others.
Regards all GO AMERICA!
Ya sure
October 26th, 2012
@dale,
isn’t Mt Vernon an incredible place to visit ?