Flutterby™! : Meg Whitman's response

Interesting commentary on California Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's exchange with a Fresno State student during a recent debate with Jerry Brown. The woman asking the question said that she was brought as a young child to California (ie: student, who said, according to this article, that

She was a student who graduated first in her class in high school and is now an honors student at Fresno State, triple majoring! in poli sci, Spanish, and Latin American Studies.

The question was about the Federal and California versions of the DREAM Act, which would provide a path for this young lady to permanent residence. CalBuzz quotes Whitman's response:

"Here is the challenge we face: Our resources are scarce. We are in terrible economic times and slots have been eliminated at the California State University system—I think they’re down by 40,000 students. Same is true at the … the University of California system. Programs have been cut, and California citizens have been denied admission to these universities and I don’t think it’s fair to bar and eliminate the ability of California citizens to attend higher universities and favor undocumenteds."

My observation that I'd rather have the people who were capable of walking across tens of miles of desert and evading the border patrol and working hard enough to build a life for themselves by doing the crap jobs that American citizens don't want in my economy than many American citizens who sit on their fat sense of entitlement.