Trump administration pushes states to exclude immigrant students from in-state tuition
Source: Politico
Trump administration pushes states to exclude immigrant students from in-state tuition
The Justice Department argues these tuition laws unfairly offer a benefit to foreigners that is unavailable to U.S. citizens and legal residents.
By Gregory Svirnovskiy and Bianca Quilantan
07/26/2025 02:00 PM EDT
Texas let undocumented young people qualify for in-state college tuition for 24 years.
President Donald Trump convinced the state to unravel the policy in a matter of hours.
Since returning to the White House, Trump’s Justice Department has launched legal challenges against laws in Texas, Kentucky and Minnesota that allow undocumented students to pay the tuition rate reserved for state residents. That price can often be half of what out-of-state students are responsible for.
Discounting tuition for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children has a long bipartisan history. Texas’ law was signed by Republican then-Gov. Rick Perry and 23 red and blue states, plus the District of Columbia, followed, a political mood that’s now reversing: Florida repealed its 2014 in-state tuition law this February.
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