How you feel about the matter probably depends on whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.

Kerry Healey, WTF? It is outrageous that our Lt. Governor makes a mere 400 students a campaign issue while refusing to acknowledge the existence of the commonwealth’s 30,000 students currently attending state higher education institutions. That’s 400 students that would pay $40,000 for a degree at the University of Massachusetts Boston - anything but a free ride.

Hey, K. Heal! Talk about people like me! I attend state university. And in state tuition is no gift, take Ryan’s word for it . How does punishing these 400 students help me? 91 classes at UMB were canceled this fall because not enough students were enrolled; clearly, there is plenty of room.

It's interesting that certain far-right Web sites that post phone numbers of elected or appointed Massachusetts officials offer no way to call them up to discuss their posts.

So Cambridge is a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Harry notes that Cambridge apartment rents average $1,400 a month:

... This economic barrier to entry will allow the city to persist in blissful sanctimony, untested by an influx of immigrants.

Aaron Margolis throws his support behind a movement by west-of-Worcester conservatives to boycott Massachusetts because of Ted Kennedy's stance on immigration, even though he doubts it will result in any changes: Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick:

... So let's see if the message gets to the voters...I'm not holding my breath for a huge blow to the state economy. I'm stuck in this state for the time being, so I'll have to depend on you guys outside the state line to boycott on my behalf.

John Daley, who knows something about policing, predicts that even if the Romney/Healey administration insists on the State Police checking the immigration status of everybody they stop, the troopers will simply ignore the mandate:

...[T]hey will lose the ability to work effectively with local police departments on joint investigations or initiatives. Forget counter-terrorism investigations. No one will in the communities will talk to them. ...

On Blue Mass. Group, Bob suggests that people who work themselves into a lather over the way immigrant children are (or aren't) learning English might want to check their grammar and spelling first.

East Boston protest photos.

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The Reluctant Housewife was born in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican mother and an American father (himself born in Colombia). She complains about what the immigration debate has been reduced to:

... I am dismayed at all the "racist" talk recently about closing our Mexican border, "send them back!", blah blah blah, because this talk is aimed mostly at people who are of "Hispanic" descent. If you are for deporting all illegals, then be prepared to send EVERYBODY back.

I am saddened by the people who say "Hispanics" are a drain to the economy. That we are not "real Americans" (those people deserve one of my pointy Jimmy Choos up their ass. Truly.) That we are poor, that we are lazy, that we are criminals, that we are taking more out of the system than we are putting in. Please!

I am horrified at the hypocrites who blame all that is wrong with America on the "illegals" yet happily exploit them when they need a cheap nanny, or a housecleaner or a meal. ...