Immigration & Border Security

Trump Administration Sues to Block Texas Law Offering In-State Tuition to Illegal Immigrants

About 57,000 of a total 690,000 students enrolled in Texas’s public universities and colleges are illegal immigrants. 
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Trump Administration Sues to Block Texas Law Offering In-State Tuition to Illegal Immigrants
Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 27, 2012. Eric Gay, File/AP Photo
T.J. Muscaro
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The Department of Justice is seeking to block a Texas law that allows college students to access reduced in-state tuition rates regardless of their immigration status.

Filed in the Wichita Falls division of the Northern District of Texas, the lawsuit asked a federal judge to block the law that has been in place for almost 25 years, citing an executive order designed to stop any state or local laws deemed discriminatory against legal U.S. residents.

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T.J. Muscaro
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T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.