Lawyer: Community colleges must admit eligible illegal immigrants - North Carolina

North Carolina’s community colleges must admit illegal immigrants as long as they are 18 years old and high school graduates, a legal decision that reverses a 2004 rule that gave campuses the option to say no.

Leaders at 37 of the 58 community college campuses statewide already had agreed to permit these immigrants to enroll in their schools.

But giving colleges the discretion to deny admission based on legal status in August 2004 runs counter to the system’s open-door admissions policy, community college attorney David Sullivan wrote in a memo to all campuses earlier this month. Before 2004, undocumented people weren’t supposed to enroll in degree programs at all.”*

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