Justice Department sues Texas over in-state tuition for students without legal residency

The Justice Department Wednesday sued Texas for allowing young big migrants, commonly referred to arsenic “Dreamers,” to entree in-state tuition astatine nationalist colleges and universities

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Justice Department connected Wednesday sought to artifact a Texas instrumentality that for decades has fixed assemblage students without ineligible residency successful the U.S. entree to reduced in-state tuition rates.

Texas was the archetypal authorities successful the federation successful 2001 to walk a instrumentality allowing “Dreamers,” oregon young adults without ineligible status, to beryllium eligible for in-state tuition if they conscionable definite residency criteria. Twenty-four states present person akin laws, according to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, which tracks authorities policies connected migration and education.

The suit filed successful Texas national tribunal asks a justice to artifact the law, which immoderate authorities Republican lawmakers person sought to repeal for years. The suit is the latest effort by the Trump medication to ace down connected migration into the country.

“Under national law, schools cannot supply benefits to amerciable aliens that they bash not supply to U.S. citizens,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi said. “The Justice Department volition relentlessly combat to vindicate national instrumentality and guarantee that U.S. citizens are not treated similar second-class citizens anyplace successful the country.”

About 57,000 undocumented students are enrolled successful Texas universities and colleges, according to the Presidents’ Alliance connected Higher Education and Immigration, a nonpartisan nonprofit radical of assemblage leaders focused connected migration policy.

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