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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Would you rather see someone come here and NOT study hard and commit crimes and receive assistance? You have to look at all sides and not just the "free high school" aspect. [/quote]

This is a straw argument --- there is no chance, none, that these [u]particular[/u] people would come to the US and "not study hard."   That's the only reason they're here -- to study hard, win a competitive spot in a limited seats school, and do better than the competition in order to get that seat.

That all sounds heart warming and apple pie, until you stop to reflect that 1. they aren't paying most taxes to the US/Virginia/Fairfax, and 2. they're not paying tuition (a fee) for that TJ seat and 3. this a zero sum game.   If Seok Park, citizen of Seoul and S. Korea passport holder, gets seat #78 in the freshman class of 2015, that means by definition that  US citizen and Fairfax-born Hye Soon Lee will not get seat #78.  She has to go to her home school because her numbers weren't quite as good as Seok's.

So you see, this isn't an anti-Asian thing.  It's an anti-carpetbagger thing.[/quote]

beautifully expressed, but the thing that irks me more is they don't stay here after graduating so this country, which gave them the (free) education, doesn't get the benefit thereof.

Quite disheartening that some find it "racist" to even mention this issue.[/quote]

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