September 23, 2005
Washington Legal Foundation Challenges Immigrant-Tuition Laws
A legal-advocacy group based here is challenging laws in New York and Texas that permit illegal immigrants who graduate from high schools in those states to pay discounted resident-tuition rates at public colleges.
In the past month, the Washington Legal Foundation has filed a pair of complaints with the civil-rights office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, asserting that the states' tuition policies violate a 1996 federal law. The law says that if public colleges permit
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