As an educator, I am deeply concerned for the young people who were brought here as children and are now denied reasonable access to higher education in North Carolina because of their illegal status. We are punishing them and our society for a situation that they did not create and cannot easily remedy.

Instead of encouraging them to move toward educated citizenship, current legal opinion pushes them toward low-paying jobs and the welfare system. We can and should do better than this.

Pat Weedman

Wilson