Children of immigrant families, documented or not, are often the hardest working kids in school. Their parents were willing to risk a lot to come to the U.S. precisely so that their kids could have greater opportunities than the parents had. Ask anybody at a supervisory level in the construction trades, and you'll learn that "illegal immigrants" are the hardest working, most reliable tradesmen and craftsmen.

So both parents and children are highly motivated to succeed. Immigrant children routinely excel in school.

For a country that depends increasingly on brainpower for economic advancement, we'd be crazy to prevent immigrant high school graduates from getting good college educations simply because their parents can't afford the sky-high out-of-state tuition.