I (actually my parents) had to pay out of state tuition to send me to the University of Maryland when Rutgers in the DPRNJ put me on waitlist 20 years ago.
If I was an illegal alien I would have gotten the in state rates. Ah, who cares, it wasn’t my money, (the lib mantra) just my parents who came here legally from a sinkhole country and slaved in thankless jobs to put me through school.
Here in Calif. they get various breaks while legal residents pay up big time.
Besides the illegal children living on this side of the border using our elementry to high schools here in San Diego, there are also thousands that cross daily to use the schools.
Not only costing us tax payers, but making a disaster of our schoold system.
You mentioned Rutgers, I have several relatives who are grads. from there in NJ.
As you said, if you were an illegal, you would have had it made.