Texas Bill Aims to End In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens
“In the 2024-2025 school year alone, more than 20,000 undocumented migrants received in-state tuition benefits that resulted in an estimated $150 million in subsidies”
It’s kind of surprising that this was ever even a thing in Texas.
Campus Reform reports:
Texas legislation would end in-state tuition for illegal aliens
A Texas bill would prevent illegal immigrants from receiving in-state college tuition rates.
Senate Bill 1798 would also ban financial aid from going to illegal immigrants attending colleges and universities in the state.
“The governing board of an institution of higher education shall ensure that each unit of the institution does not award or provide to a person who is not authorized under federal statute to be present in the United States any financial support using money appropriated or otherwise provided by the state to the institution or unit, including a scholarship, grant, or other financial aid,” the bill’s text says.
If the bill is passed, it would align with President Trump’s recent executive order to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition benefits over American citizens.
23 other states permit illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition, according to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal.
State Sen.. Mayes Middleton, who is sponsoring the bill, recently elaborated on the necessity of the legislation.
“In the 2024-2025 school year alone, more than 20,000 undocumented migrants received in-state tuition benefits that resulted in an estimated $150 million in subsidies,” Middleton said at a recent committee hearing, according to NewsNation. “These are funds that could’ve been used to support lawful residents, perhaps even used to lower tuition or fees for citizens.”
The Higher Ed Immigration Portal estimates that 57,000 illegal immigrants are college students in Texas.
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so supposed red state texas paid for illegals when they didnt legal have to!!??!?!??
Colleges are full of lefties, and financial aid departments are all about the diversity agenda, because they get to suck down all that federal student aid money including loans the students will have to spend their lives paying back. So they route grants to their favored constituencies and the rest get loans.
Why are they allowed in school in the first place. Ban them from all schools and then deport for truancy.
“It’s kind of surprising that this was ever even a thing in Texas.”
To the extent that Texas is red, it’s largely on the backs of RINOs.
Illegal aliens should not receive benefits of citizenship.
agree
but congress allowed it
and cant seem to want to change it
ILLEGAL ALIENS should be EXCLUDED from admission into ALL educational institutions!!!! What is it about the worst “ILLEGAL?” Are there no dictionaries left to consult???
Oops! WORD not worst. Darn those cataracts.