Posted on 09/29/2025 3:39:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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But according to my research, many of our most prestigious private colleges are still providing financial benefits and other perks to undocumented students — shortchanging Americans in the process. On Sept. 22, Kentucky agreed to a tentative settlement with the Justice Department that will end in-state tuition benefits for illegal-immigrant students.
The Bluegrass State’s policy — like those of many other states — allowed undocumented immigrants who graduate from a Kentucky high school to pay much lower in-state tuition rates at Kentucky’s state colleges.
In June, Trump’s Justice Department took the state to court, arguing the policy violates federal law — by giving preferential treatment to non-citizens over out-of-state Americans who must pay three or more times the in-state rate. Kentucky’s cave-in followed similar decisions in Texas and Oklahoma, in response to Trump administration lawsuits; a case against Minnesota is pending.
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All colleges do.
The US government has been bribing colleges with multimillion-dollar grants if they enroll at least 20% “Hispanics”. Many are illegal and barely literate, but they bring in the big bucks to colleges.
(Fortunately, the Trump admin has now stopped this.)
The federal government needs to cut their funding.
For that matter, there should be NO federal government money going to fund *higher* education.
PERIOD.
There’s no Constitutional provision for it.
First question would have to be, “How does someone in the country illegally enroll in high school?”
Local school boards should be dragged out by mobs of property taxpayers demanding the answer to this.
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982)
USSC ruled a state cannot prevent children of undocumented immigrants from attending public school unless a substantial state interest is involved.
The court should revisit this ruling I think we both can agree.
I think that the money spent on illegal aliens is money better spent on the students of citizens, particularly in poorer states.
The more illegal aliens that get free education in the US the more will be encouraged to come.
Just recently Harvard lost a SCOTUS case brought by an Asian American group claiming that they were deliberately discriminated against by Harvard. And to that I can add a true story: years ago I dated a woman who was a graduate of Radcliffe. She once told me that a classmate of hers,who was a Vice Chancellor of Admissions at Harvard,told her that were it not for the school’s “unique” (my word) admissions policy every Freshman class would be made up entirely of Asians and Jews.
There are some really top non-Jewish white students as well.
Plyler went further.
It limited the relief to mandated education - i.e., up through high school. It does not require post-secondary education access as there is no compulsory mandate for that.
Thus illegal alien children are not entitled to a) admission to a US college or university nor b) in-state tuition. But that hasn’t stopped the Rats or La Raza from rabidly pushing for both.
There’s only one itty bitty little problem: treating foreign nationals in the country illegally as residents for the purpose of tuition violates the 14th Amendment of Equal Protection for Citizens of the States of the Union...i.e., us Americans.
Hasn’t stopped them from doing it. Trump admin pushing against it and going to court - but unbelievably, getting pushback. Texas finally relented. But others still doing it.
Any state extending such tuition relief to illegal aliens should be forced by the courts to match that relief for any out of state citizen students. Needless to say, they don’t.
Truly beyond belief.
Bass turds. I wonder what the illegal kiddies are trading for a free education.
For that matter, there should be NO federal government money going to fund *higher* education.
PERIOD.
There’s no Constitutional provision for it.
maybe take it phases or slow process to remove funding. Big schools can take it, but the small conservative private colleges would all go under water if you suddenly cut all federal funds.
True.
However, it does need to be done along with COMPLETELY dismantling and defunding the Dept of Ed.
Academia is hard left no matter what state it’s in.
Ultimately it should be done, yes
Except for service academies and military training, there should be no federal government money (taken at gunpoint from you and me) to fund ANY education. That's reserved to the States and to We the People.
Hillsdale and Christendom already take NO government funding.
OK, that’s a reasonable exception.
Training of future AMERICAN military leaders is a different matter.
And NO elective trans surgeries allowed. PERIOD.
The military must NOT be used as a free medical services provider. Providing medical for active service, veterans and those disabled as a result military combat are different.
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