In June 2001, Texas became the first state to pass a law giving in-state tuition rates to illegals, although some universities in Texas, California and New York had been quietly doing this during the 1990s... California universities now make a student from Arizona pay nearly four times as much as an illegal alien... At California's state universities, in-state students and illegal aliens now pay $1,839, out-of-staters pay $7,380; at UC Berkeley, in- staters and illegals pay $3,859, out-of-staters $15,000. The difference is subsidized by the highly-taxed citizens of California plus the highly-taxed taxpayers from the 49 other states who provide all kinds of federal student benefits but whose own children are discriminated against. http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2003/mar03/03-03-19.shtml
UT Austin tuition for 2009/10 for say Business majors is about $4,900 for in-state. For out-of-state it's $16,400. Guess who's picking up the $11,500 difference? For every illegal who is admitted, that's one American taxpaying student who is denied an education.
http://www.utexas.edu/tuition/