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Posted on 06/23/2025 10:48:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For 24 years, immigrants lacking documentation who graduated from high school in California have received in-state tuition benefits at public colleges and universities under a law that’s given tens of thousands access to higher education that many couldn’t otherwise afford.
When the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 540 in 2001, it was the second state in the nation — after Texas — to embrace such tuition policies. Bipartisan efforts quickly grew across the country, with more than 20 states adopting similar policies.
But recent court actions by the Trump administration are causing alarm among immigrant students and casting a shadow over the tuition benefit in California, the state with the largest population of people living in the U.S. without legal authorization.
On June 4, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Texas over its tuition statute for immigrants without authorization, alleging it violated a federal law that prevents people who do not have legal status from receiving public benefits. Texas did not defend its law and instead put its support behind the Trump administration, leaving 57,000 undocumented college students in the state in educational limbo after a federal judge blocked the statute.
Last week, the DOJ launched a similar suit in Kentucky, asking a federal judge to strike down a state practice that it says unlawfully gives undocumented immigrants access to in-state college tuition while American citizens from other states pay higher tuition to attend the same schools.
“Under federal law, schools cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide...
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So much to fix, so little time...
Halp, halp, Newsom is starving, torturing and forced us into this state wide concentration camp. Please send food and cheap gas.
The Dems’ coveted Latino population who are here honestly are resentful of illegals who cross the border and get quickly are given Medicaid, Social Security, food cards, housing and college tuition from the working Americans paying taxes.
Something the Dems didn’t count on as they always dehumanize their voting blocs, with “the women” and “the blacks” and “the union workers” expected to simply obey and fall in line with the Dems.
Lately many were siphoned off by Trump.
I remember the day Rick Perry signed the law. Called his office and told the nice lady who answered that Texas had just left the Union again. She was rather taken aback.
They really are that clueless at the top.
It makes sense to sue in KY and TX first as you are more likely to obtain a favorable ruling.
so why are illegal aliens even allowed to go to college in the first place?
i distinctly remember there is a citizenship question on the application for any applicants.
if you’re not a citizen you’re charged an international student rate.
and if you select ‘yes’ on citizen, when you dirty filthy non-american just lied, grounds for immediate dismissal.
Texas and KY are a shock. Time to get their acts together.
Aren’t states all over the country doing the same thing?
Sec 505 of the 1996 IIRIRA forbids in-state for illegals unless the same bwnfit is afforded to citizens.
We need to lose that weasel wordage, don’t we...
How about he stop all fed funds for any illegal registered or employed at any public college in any state. It was evil doer Gov. Goodhair Perry who forced TX on the Dream Act and got his good buddy Merck into the schools with “free” HPV Gardasil vax.
When our kids were in college the departments were all wink, wink about the benefits given to illegals but not jack for top ranked in-state US citizen white kids. Daughter’s randomly selected roommate was an illegal and got a free ride.
Keep it simple
No papers no college
No mention of the taxes that citizens could not afford to pay so the illegals get their benefits. It’s a straight-line transfer payment from tax payers to illegals.
“Trump sues to end college tuition benefits for undocumented students. Could California be next?”
Trump sues to end college tuition benefits for illegal alien students. Could California be next?
There, fixed it
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