The University of Georgia will not be allowed to admit Chester Brown, a 6-foot-5, 340-pound lineman, as a student, due to the Georgia Board of Regents policy regarding admission of undocumented students and illegal immigrants. Therefore, the UGA commitment will not, obviously, be eligible to play football for the Bulldogs.
Brown, who lives in Hinesville, GA, withdrew his UGA commitment letter “for personal reasons," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, after committing to Georgia in July.
The current Board of Regents policy was adopted in Oct. 2010, after the Jessica Colotl situation at Kennesaw State University, where it was discovered undocumented student Colotl had been attending KSU on in-state tuition. The policy was later created by the Board of Regents, stating that an undocumented student cannot take the seat of an otherwise academically qualified Georgia resident who has been turned away due to capacity constraints.
Scott Carrier, Brown’s principal at Bradwell Institute, confirmed to the AJC that the situation was an “immigration-related issue,” but did not elaborate further. While Brown’s mother has insisted that her son is a U.S. citizen, and was born in the U.S., there are lingering questions as to whether or not Brown has been able to prove his citizenship status.
“Some things slipped through the cracks that could have prevented this had they been handled earlier,” Carrier said to the AJC.
After the Colotl incident, the Board of Regents found that there were approximately 521 undocumented students within the 311,000 students in the university system, the AJC reported, and a smaller subset of illegal immigrants. This led to the action that has, apparently, led to the withdrawal of Brown’s commitment to the Bulldogs.
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