You are both ignoring that the Governor has protested the fact that Texas is forced to educate, feed and provide medical care for the child of any illegal in our public schools and has called for preventing them from crossing the border in the first place.
The Governor has not “gone illegal.”
Instead, in one very narrow case, the State of Texas has determined how to deal with what is:
there are illegal 17 and 18 year olds who were brought here as children,
who have been in our high schools at least 3 years.
The Feds will not deport them or their families.
They have assimilated and excelled enough to both graduate from a Texas high school and be accepted to a State college.
We decided that in light of their achievement and 3 years without being deported by the Feds, we wouldn’t charge them the non-resident tuition, just as we would anyone who lives in a county next to our border (for some Colleges, within a 100 miles) in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, or Mexico, or as we would for other US citizens and legal aliens who lived here one, not 3 years.
Sounds like the Feds have no heart.