The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Governor Gavin Newsom to stop in-state tuition breaks for illegals in California—the latest target of its crackdown on these unlawful incentives to illegal immigration.
California laws provide in-state tuition, scholarships, and subsidized loans for illegal aliens—benefits denied to U.S. citizens from other states.
That’s discrimination against our own citizenry, and it’s unconstitutional. Federal law prohibits aliens illegally present in the United States from receiving in-state tuition benefits that are denied to out-of-state U.S. citizens. There are no exceptions, the government’s lawsuit states.
The DOJ complaint filed yesterday in the Eastern District of California names the State of California, Governor Newsom, the State Attorney General, and the Regents of the University of California, the Board of Trustees of the California State University, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
The government asks the court to block the enforcement of California law requiring colleges and universities to provide in-state tuition rates for all aliens who maintain California residency, regardless of whether those aliens are lawfully present in the United States. It also seeks to enjoin the state from enforcing the “California Dream Act” which affords scholarships and subsidized loans to illegal aliens—but not to U.S. citizens.
The DOJ filing follows two executive orders signed by President Trump earlier this year: “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” to ensure that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens; and “Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens,” to overturn state laws like the one in California that offer in-state education tuition to aliens but not to out-of-state American citizens.
California is now the sixth state to be sued in the Trump administration’s ongoing battle to end the unlawful tuition benefits, originally offered in over 20 states.
Texas and Oklahoma both halted their in-state tuition programs for illegals shortly after the DOJ challenged them, as we reported earlier here and here.
Kentucky had reached a tentative agreement with the DOJ to end its in-state tuition benefits. However, earlier this week, a U.S. District Court granted a subsequent request by the Kentucky Students for Affordable Tuition to intervene in the case, putting the settlement on hold, the Kentucky Lantern reports.
And in Illinois, to no surprise, Governor Pritzker is pushing back against the administration’s challenge to its taxpayer-funded tuition breaks for illegals.
Settlement also seems unlikely in Governor Newsom’s California, where the DOJ is on the warpath. Yesterday’s court filing marks its third lawsuit against California in one week, Attorney General Pamela Bondi said yesterday in a press release, vowing to keep suing the state until it stops breaking federal law.
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