Posted on 08/30/2025 4:51:40 AM PDT by fwdude
In June, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Texas to end access to in-state tuition for students without legal status, arguing the Texas Dream Act discriminated against U.S. citizens. Within hours, the state conceded.
KUT News is using Mariel's first name only because of privacy concerns over her immigration status.
Mariel had been set to graduate from UT Austin next spring with two degrees, one in biology and another in Spanish. She would be a step closer to becoming a doctor.
“That was the one thing that I felt like I had, [it] was my education. That’s the one thing I thought I had that would never be taken away from me,” Mariel said. “And for that to happen, it was like … I was crushed.”
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So illegals get a reduced tuition but someone from Virginia pays out of state tuition?!
“Immigrant families struggle to pay tuition.....”
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Welcome to America......they just learned a very valuable lesson.....nothing is “free”
I did what many did at UT. I went to the Military first, and then came back and got my degrees. I always felt like I earned a little break in my Educational costs that way, and it wasn’t given to me.
Boo-Freaking-Hoo....my daughter, who graduated magna cum laud, graduated with distinction from her dance department and was one of the best dancers in her department at a Big Ten university, never got $0.01 cent of aid, tuition grants, scholarship or anything- it all came out of my pocket- $55K each year for four years....
She would tell us how they would sit around in a circle and talk about why they came to this Big 10 university. She would mention most of the kids would say “because it has a great dance department”...the only kids who didn’t were DEI students that were not very good dancers and replied, “Because i got a full ride.” But because her dad is white, owns a home and works two jobs to keep money in the bank and pay all the bills, she/we got nothing.
F these people...i paid for my college, i paid back all my student loans and i paid for my daughters college- without taking any student loans...
They’re friggin’ illegal aliens who ran from their homes like cowards and jumped on the backs of American taxpayers. Worthless subhumans. The American people don’t owe them anything. Especially not a college diploma. Those maggots aren’t worthy of getting a college diploma at the taxpayers’ expense.
I did what many did at UT. I went to the Military first, and then came back and got my degrees. I always felt like I earned a little break in my Educational costs that way, and it wasn’t given to me.
FWdude: Good plan. Valuable lesson for those who think they are owed an education. Earn it ! I, too, when to school with a military scholarship. Best decision of my life not to go into financial debt but give service to the country in exchange for my education. Giving financial preference to illegal residents over legal residents should never have been allowed!
Exactly.
In fact, it’s time for the illegal aliens to be like E.T and go home!
Sec 505 of the 1996 IIRIRA, which Bubba signed, prohibits states from providing any higher education benefit based on residence to undocumented immigrants unless they provide the same benefit to U.S. citizens in the same circumstances, regardless of their residence.
Correction: Governor Perry originally instituted in-state tuition for illegals but Abbott continued it.
Yep, struggling to pay tuition should be the least of their worries.
As my macroeconomics professor at Gonzaga University said often, "THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES!"
I never could have afforded 4 years at GU. Instead, I earned a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship my senior year in HS. One of the best things that ever happened to me.
It led to 8 years in the Army, and changed my life. Also got my masters while on active duty, thanks to the GI Bill.
I know some military brat kids from our oversea HS couldn’t get in UT Austin. TX schools were very strict to US students. My buddy and I joined from TX and had to send in bunch of documentation to prove our TX residents. UT SA accepted his kid as in state but TX Tech wouldn’t accept mine. TX discriminated American kids for years.
When I went to school, it wasn’t so expensive (Seventies).
Years later I married my wife who helps stay on budget. We told our kids that if they pick a career first and do research on what it takes to get into the career and how to excel in that career (talking to people who do the work, not just the school advisors), then we’d pay for that training up to the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree at the local university I went to (but today’s prices). Two kids got 4 year degrees at $50K total (each kid), and two kids got trade school degrees. All with useful training because the training was validated by the people who might be the ones to one day hire them in their careers.
My wife retired at 55 and I plan to join her at about the age 57 to 59, with the only debt being on the house (low interest, so instead of paying that down quickly we paid extra into retirement investments).
Is a Spanish degree like an English degree where you study literature? Or is it simply learning the language, because that seems absurd to me?
Of course, the core curriculum is Leftist indoctrination.
It sounds to me like her illegal alien status, not her immigration status, is the driving factor for her privacy concerns...but that's just me.
Anything worth having is worth working for.
That old saying comes to mind: liberals offer handouts, Conservatives offer a hand up.
No concern over the legal taxpayers paying for illegal alien's tuition.
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