Facebook Mogul Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Help Illegal Immigrants with College Tuition

Apparently, ���illegal��� just doesn���t mean what it used to.

According to The Mercury News, 33-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have decided that one of the best uses of their fortune is to help San Francisco-area illegal immigrants by handing them college scholarships for use at American colleges and universities.

Oh, why not, right?

The money passes from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to TheDream.US, a program benefitting illegal immigrants that has, among its various objectives, the goal of seeing 400 illegals from the region in college by 2020.

Young illegals, often referred to as ���dreamers,��� generally find that more typical ways of financing college, like federal student aid, are off-limits to them.

You know, because they���re illegal.

But that fact isn���t stopping TheDream.US from working hard on their behalf, or Mr. and Mrs. Zuckerberg from doing what they can to help make the goal of a college education a reality for undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Mary Papazian, president of San Jose State University, is ���all in��� on the effort to hand out college scholarships to illegals. Her school is expected to receive over 40 of the scholarship recipients this coming fall.

���They have a real sense of drive and purpose,��� said Papazian. ���With just a little support, it���s really incredible what they can do.���

There are probably a lot of bright, young, earnest U.S. citizens, with no realistic way to pay for college themselves, about whom the very same thing could be said.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large