Apparently, unlike some states, the in-state tuition in Texas covers the incremental costs of a student. Anyway, these kids aren’t adults who just crossed the border to go to school. They have been here for years, they are americanized, they speak the language, all their friends are here, they are now adults and have no connection to their “home country”. Why would they go back to somewhere that they hardly speak the language and don’t know anybody?
It is more likely they’d just do a community college. So you wouldn’t throw them out of the country, you’d just limit their education — these are kids whose grades are good enough to qualify them for university.
And the kids didn’t “choose” this. It was their parents who decided to bring them into the country. I guess we can punish the kids for the sins of their parents, but when it doesn’t cost us anything, why would we?
Sounds like the same kind of “punish” as Obama’s “I don’t want to see women punished with a baby.”