June 4, 2025      2:57 PM

DOJ sues Texas over in-state tuition for undocumented students

The breaking news via Houston Chronicle reporter Taylor Goldenstein:

The Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas over a longstanding policy that allows undocumented immigrants to receive in-state college tuition.

Texas lawmakers considered outlawing the practice in the legislative session that ended Monday, as they have in previous sessions, but the half a dozen proposals failed to gain traction. None passed in either chamber.

The Justice Department argued that the policy violates federal law, which prohibits undocumented immigrants from being eligible for any benefit on the basis of state residence for any post-secondary education benefit unless citizens are also eligible. “The State of Texas has ignored this law for years,” reads the government’s petition, filed in federal court in Wichita Falls. “This Court should put that to an end and permanently enjoin enforcement of certain provisions of the Texas Education Code that expressly and directly conflict with federal immigration law.”

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