Texas Tuition Increase – 710am KURV

Texas Tuition Increase – 710am KURV

The state of Texas is ordering all public colleges and universities to identify which of their students are illegal immigrants. It’s part of a new push to deny in-state tuition rates for the so-called Dreamers, who were brought across the border as children. Earlier this month, the Trump Justice Department sued Texas over its policy of letting illegal immigrant students qualify for lower tuition rates. The state Attorney General quickly agreed, …

DOJ targeting states’ in-state tuition, could Kansas be next?

What the Kansas Legislature has refused to do may be left up to the courts. Since the start of June, the U.S. Justice Department has challenged state laws in Texas, Kentucky and Minnesota that provide immigrants living in the United States illegally reduced in-state tuition at higher education institutions. Since 2004, Kansas has had a law granting in-state tuition to the children of immigrants here illegally who graduated from a Kansas high sch…