NY gives in-state tuition to students impacted by hurricanes

“Las Vegas is home to tens of thousands of people of Puerto Rican origin or descent, and there are many ties that bind us”, Collazo said.

South Florida Colleges are also offering in-state tuition to students affected by the hurricanes and regents in Conneticut are set to vote on the same decision next week.

The organic farm where Torres’ mother works is in coastal Arecibo, which was hit hard by Hurricane Maria.

Acosta loves the support she’s seen from South Mississippians.

Kira Romero-Craft, an attorney for the not-for-profit LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a civil rights group that compares itself with the NAACP for Latinos, said she thinks the U.S.is trying to minimize the perception of the Puerto Rican problem. David Tawil, president and co-founder of Maglan Capital LP, which once held Puerto Rico debt, said the president’s comments pushed the bonds closer to their proper value by scaring off investors who had been hanging in there, hoping to recoup some of what they’ve already lost.

Bernie Sanders called on the president to quit with the insulting tweets and start doing a better job to help rebuild the storm-ravaged and economically-devastated island of Puerto Rico, a USA territory that’s home to millions of American citizens.

SUNY Board Chairman H. Carl McCall says the state’s higher education system has a responsibility to help those students whose ability to get an education was put at risk by the storms.

To a person, relief organization executives said donations ebb and flow with the rhythm of major media coverage of a disaster. Only seven percent of the island has power and more remote parts of the island – a USA territory – have been without food, water and basic medical aid.

By late last week, with mothers wading through waste-deep water to try to secure basic necessities for their children, Carmen Yulín Cruz, mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city of San Juan, issued a desperate plea for more help from the United States.

“There’s always a spike in the early days, then the news cycle changes and it’s less from the general public and more from our ongoing donor base”, says Safirstein. “We were completely devastated”, Heredia said. Even a small amount of money will help.

On Thursday, asked whether Trump planned to seek action to forgive any of Puerto Rico’s debt, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters: “There’s a process for how to deal with Puerto Rico’s debt”. She said Pence needed to “go to the center because that’s where the disaster is”.